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1.31 Investigating the emergence of expertise in forensic face matching over time

Academic team: Dr Reuben Moreton, Professor Graham Pike, Dr Ailsa Strathie, Dr Catriona Havard
Policing partners: Metropolitan Police Service
Status: Complete

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Forensic face-matching examiners provide vital identification evidence in criminal investigations. Research has shown that examiners possess expertise in face-matching, but the expertise and how it develops is poorly understood.

This project aims to investigate potential benefits from face-matching processes used by expert examiners and approaches to collaborative decision making by multiple examiners to improve performance.

 

Outputs

Title Outputs type Lead academic Year
Collaborative decision making and experience in forensic facial comparison Poster Moreton, R 2022
Expertise in forensic face matching Presentation Moreton, R 2022

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