Eyewitness Identification: Research, Reform, and Reversal

Eyewitness identification research and reform are being reconsidered in light of research suggesting that reforms that were once thought to increase identification accuracy may have little effect on accuracy or may actually decrease accuracy. This article addresses three questions: How should eyewitness identification procedures be evaluated? How can the research-policy collaboration prevent policy revisions and reversals? And how can the research-policy collaboration prepare for revisions and reversals?