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    Ways to Overcome Thefts in Neighbourhood Nowadays‚ there are so many theft has happen at our neighbourhood. This problem may make a bad thought about our neigbourhood. In my opinion‚ this problem should not happen to our peacefully neighbourhood. So‚ we have to overcome this problem before it getting worst. In this essay‚ I will discuss about the ways to overcome theft problem. First and foremost‚ our neighbourhood seems really remote at night. This situation may be used by thieves to theft at

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    Eye Witness Testimony Refers to the use of eye or ear witnesses in court or in police statements about the identity of someone who has committed a crime. Key Study into EWT – Factors that Influence EWT * Anxiety * Unpleasant emotional state where we fear that something bad is about to happen usually accompanied by physiological arousal (pumping heart) * Deffenbacher – MA of studies found considerable support for a negative correlation between anxiety and EWT meaning the more

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    The article I chose was “Leading Questions and the Eyewitness Report‚” by Elizabeth F. Loftus. This article was a report of the results of four experiments conducted to study the importance of how questions are asked. More specifically‚ how the wording and timing of the question can influence the subject’s answer to that question. The subjects were exposed to events such as disruptions in a classroom or car accidents - things that are sudden and quick. In all four experiments‚ the subjects were all

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    with a fee of one hundred and fifty dollars for a first-class sleeper. The iron‚ coal‚ steel‚ lumber and glass industries grew rapidly just because of the their constant need to keep up with the railroad needs. The growth of Industry also helped benefit and industrialize the Country immensely. Industry Entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ and J.P Morgan played the biggest roles during this time. Like railroads large industries created plentiful jobs. In this so-called gilded

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    Summary of the case The case concerns an eyewitness interview carried out by Police Officer Paul Williams on Thursday 27th September 2017. The eyewitness‚ 28-year-old Thomas Peters‚ was coming back home from the Odeon cinema on a Tuesday night shortly after 10pm when he heard loud shouting in a nearby alleyway. He there saw two men in their twenties‚ arguing. Thomas Peters described one of them‚ the aggressor‚ as being tall and muscly‚ wearing a maroon shirt and dark jeans‚ and having no hair. Thomas

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    Book Review of "Hear My Testimony" By Maria Teresa Tula This is probably one of the most moving books I have ever read in my life. It is basically a narrative story of the life of an El Salvadorian women named: Maria Teresa Tula. Maria is a wonderful storyteller and the fact the she is describing her own real life experiences greatly add to the impact of the book. Most of the chapters in the book are just her telling about her life. She was born a very poor and sickly child‚ growing up

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    Effect of anxiety in eye witness testimony Eyewitness Testimony refers to witnesses who are asked to give testimonies in court to particular crimes. Anxiety is amongst several other factors that can affect the accuracy of EWT. Depending on the anxiety level a witness has experienced‚ their recall level can either be more or less accurate. Loftus 1979‚ investigated the effect of anxiety on eye witness testimony accuracy. She asked participants to sit outside a laboratory where they thought they

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    1007/s10979-009-9192-x ORIGINAL ARTICLE The Effect of Retention Interval on the Confidence–Accuracy Relationship for Eyewitness Identification James Sauer Æ Neil Brewer Æ Tick Zweck Æ Nathan Weber Published online: 22 July 2009 Ó American Psychology-Law Society/Division 41 of the American Psychological Association 2009 Abstract Recent research using a calibration approach indicates that eyewitness confidence assessments obtained immediately after a positive identification decision provide a useful guide

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    How is Elizabeth’s testimony used against Proctor? Why is this an unfair test of Elizabeth’s word against John’s? Evaluate Elizabeth’s decision. Elizabeth claims that Proctor is not a lecher while he says he is. This is unfair‚ because they are both trying to be selfless

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    significance of the Gardner’s testimony identifying Rafshoon as the person whom he saw running away and how strong was his testimony in your opinion? Who do you think benefitted more from this-prosecution or defense? I think it benefitted defense counsel more than prosecution because when Bernstein started to ask him more detailed oriented question‚ Gardner started to saying that he could not recall any of the details. Additionally‚ I don’t think Gardner’s testimony of Rafshoon as the person who

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