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    My name is X and I’m holding a Senior Care Assistant and also Infection Control Officer and Heath and Safety Officer in Y. Kelly D is mainly under my supervision and I have witnessed the way she is assisting the residents and attending to all their needs. K is always explaining to residents that maintaining a good personal hygiene is necesary for many reasons such as personal‚ social‚ health reasons‚ pshychological or simply as a way of life. She always abl to make people understand that through

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    Based on the contents of the video‚ it is quite clear to me that eyewitness testimony is a vital part of the criminal justice process. However‚ just like every other aspect of the criminal justice system it has to be treated seriously and used with care. Failure to do this can lead to several problems in the criminal justice process such as‚ leading questions and cognitive interview errors. As a result of these errors‚ they were subsequently highly analyzed and challenged by Elizabeth Loftus.Leading

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    Although‚ eye witness testimonies construct a fundamental basis in criminal or civil investigations they are falsifiable and therefore shouldn’t exclusively determine a verdict. When used as sole evidence‚ if the testimony is remotely questionable or a key word such as “resembled” is used‚ more evidence is needed to solidify the situation. In the case Scott Fraser speaks of‚ only eye witness testimonies were being used to convict the suspect. There was no DNA evidence‚ no murder weapon‚ and a description

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    that a cut rope lay next to him‚ and that no conceivable murder weapon -- knife or sword -- was found at the crime. Tajomaru’s testimony‚ that he killed the samurai in a duel after “seducing” his wife‚ initially seems most plausible. Examining Tajomaru’s testimony from the perspective of John Locke reveals few discrepancies between the case’s evidence‚ other testimonies

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    Repressed desires will be satisfied in some way shape or form. An outlet will be found‚ and deeper darker forces will arise. Dr. Jekyll’s deeper darker forces come forth after years of his persona not acceptable in the eyes of others being repressed because of the pain that desires cause. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella‚ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ the repression of Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego eats away at him; for the repression of this other being can no longer be caged. Through

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    across prosecution outcomes in the eyewitness identification alone cases” (Flowe‚ 2011). When it comes to being a creditable source of being an eye witness there are many things that‚ factor how using someone’s testimony as accountable source. When it comes to linking and eyewitness testimony and the accusing someone under false pretenses there has been amplitude of research that has being placed into forensic psychology to help see how useful resources are when it comes to taking an eyewitness word

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    Eyewitness testimony or the testimonies given by eyewitnesses are often times used as evidence in court. A person who has seen a crime occur‚ mentions their account of what happened during the time a crime was committed. Typically‚ when people think of eyewitnesses‚ they think of adults as playing that role‚ but children also play an important part and serve as eyewitnesses as well. The testimonies given by the adult eyewitnesses and children eyewitnesses for many reasons‚ are problematic at times

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    Validity of eyewitness testimony Eyewitness testimony are accounts given by an individual about the details of an event that may include‚ what the perpetrator was wearing or physical description of the person ‚ in what direction did the person run‚ details of a crime scene of a accident etc..‚ but can the eyes lie? Eyewitness testimony has been recognized as the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the U.S and because of this there are organizations in place such as the innocent project‚ which

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    common for that to happen when they are incarcerated due to inaccurate eyewitness testimonies. Eyewitness research has demonstrated that there are a multitude of ways to conduct identification processes‚ however‚ the processes that police often use today are more likely to encourage inaccurate identification. In addition there have been many case studies of exonerated people that show the downfalls of eyewitness testimony. Wrongful incarceration has consistently demonstrated that inaccurate identification

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    whether eyewitness testimony is truly reliable? Research in cognitive psychology exposes major flaws in retrieval of long-term memory and studies exhibit how easily malleable our memories become when manipulated. The study of the human mind is a never-ending source for exploration for psychologists‚ and although there have been many ground breaking discoveries in our understanding of the human mind it is still a very mysterious and poorly understood subject. In relation to false memories and eyewitness

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