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Aug 19, 2021 · A type of cognitive bias that is commonly seen in wrongful conviction cases is confirmation bias — when a person selectively seeks, recalls, weights, or interprets information in ways that support their existing beliefs, expectations, or hypotheses.
Nov 16, 2019 · They called confirmation bias the “pivotal position” in the cause of wrongful convictions. This is because faulty assumptions by law enforcement officers and prosecutors while trying to prove themselves right infected everything else that happened in the case, from what evidence got admitted to what witnesses were called or not called.
Guided by this scholarship and in consultation with academic experts and practitioners in the field, we are creating a diagram depicting the various points in which cognitive phenomena, particularly confirmation bias and tunnel vision, can influence a criminal investigation and prosecution.
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Jul 4, 2019 · Wrongful convictions are a form of criminal investigative failure. Such failures are sentinel events that signal underlying structural problems within a weak system environment. Similar to transportation or medical accidents, they are often the result of multiple and co-occurring causes.
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Nov 18, 2019 · 7 experts explain how human factors from confirmation bias to memory malleability play a role in criminal investigations and wrongful convictions.
Jan 1, 2019 · The current study deconstructed 50 wrongful convictions and other criminal investigative failures in order to identify the major causal factors, their characteristics and interrelationships, and the systemic nature of the overall failure.
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Apr 19, 2012 · The explanations for this bias span every stage of the charging and conviction process — from racially biased police investigation and arrest policies, to the harsher treatment and greater suspicion defendants of color face — particularly when charged with crimes against white victims, to unconscious biases at trial and sentencing.
