Research on Improving Eyewitness Identification Procedures Is Especially Important in Light

question 40

Multiple Choice

Research on improving eyewitness identification procedures is especially important in light of considerable human costs to false identification. Which one of the following is NOT among these costs?

• A) Lives of the wrongly identified innocent people could be shattered.
• B) Eyewitnesses who later discover their mistakes must live with a sense of guilt.
• C) The misidentified suspects are forced to falsely confess.
• D) The real criminals remain free to commit more crimes.

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