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Why Do the Police Interview Eyewitnesses? Interview Objectives and the Evaluation of Eyewitness Performance

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Pages 595-601 | Received 07 Oct 1996, Published online: 02 Apr 2010

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Dave Walsh, Igor Areh, Rashid Minhas & Simon-Lewis Menzies. (2023) When law enforcement interview witnesses and write their statements. Police Practice and Research 24:3, pages 346-367.
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Mark R. Kebbell. (2009) Witness confidence and accuracy: is a positive relationship maintained for recall under interview conditions?. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling 6:1, pages 11-23.
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