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GRAHAM PIKE

Welcome to week 7. During this course, we have learned a great deal about the psychology of being an eyewitness, the problems of obtaining accurate eyewitness evidence and the investigative techniques that have been designed to make the most of human memory.

This has included the common errors made by eyewitnesses, problems associated with attention, weapon focus, face recognition and co-witnessing and how different types of questions and identification procedures, can alter the information that is elicited.

CATRIONA HARVARD

Our two detectives have now concluded their investigations and passed the evidence they have gathered to the prosecution. You will see that although they agree on some things, they disagree not only on what happened, but who the perpetrators are.

Using your knowledge of psychology and police investigations, you will help the defense team prepare counter arguments against the evidence that the prosecution will use.

GRAHAM PIKE

This week you will also get the chance to solve the case yourself. We will then show a video of exactly what happened in the crime and we will get the opportunity to see the results of the investigation that was conducted by a real team of police officers.

See you next week.