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Title: Catching more offenders with EvoFIT facial composites: lab research and police field trials
Author(s): Frowd, Charlie D
Hancock, Peter J B
Bruce, Vicki
Skelton, Faye Collette
Atherton, Chris J
Nelson, Laura
McIntyre, Alex H
Pitchford, Melanie
Atkins, Rebecca
Webster, DCI Andrew
Pollard, John
Hunt, Beverley
Price, Emma
Morgan, Sandra
Greening, Roz
Stoika, Adrian
Dughila, Romeo
Maftei, Sergiu
Sendrea, Gabriel
Contact Email: p.j.b.hancock@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: facial composite
witness
victim
EvoFIT
recognition
memory
interface
crime
Issue Date: Apr-2011
Date Deposited: 5-Aug-2013
Citation: Frowd CD, Hancock PJB, Bruce V, Skelton FC, Atherton CJ, Nelson L, McIntyre AH, Pitchford M, Atkins R, Webster DA, Pollard J, Hunt B, Price E, Morgan S, Greening R, Stoika A, Dughila R, Maftei S & Sendrea G (2011) Catching more offenders with EvoFIT facial composites: lab research and police field trials. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 11 (3), pp. 35-46. http://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/165
Abstract: Often, the only evidence of an offender's identity comes from the memory of an eyewitness. For over 12 years, we have been developing software called EvoFIT to help eyewitnesses recover their memories of offenders' faces, to assist police investigations. EvoFIT requires eyewitnesses to repeatedly select from arrays of faces, with ‘breeding', to ‘evolve' a face. Recently, police forces have been formally evaluating EvoFIT in criminal cases. The current paper describes four such police audits. It is reported that EvoFIT composites directly led to an arrest in 25.4% of cases overall; the arrest rate was 38.5% for forces that used a newer, less detailed face-recall interview. These results are similar to those found in the laboratory using simulated procedures. Here, we also evaluate the impact of interviewing techniques and outline further work that has improved system performance.
URL: http://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/165
Rights: © 2011. Charlie D. Frowd, Peter J.B. Hancock, Vicki Bruce, Faye C. Skelton, Chris Atherton, Laura Nelson, Alex H. McIntyre, Melanie Pitchford, Rebecca Atkins,Andrew Webster, John Pollard, Beverley Hunt, Emma Price, Sandra Morgan,Roz Greening, Adrian Stoika, Romeo Dughila, Sergiu Maftei and Gabriel Sendrea. This is a research/review paper, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction inany medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Licence URL(s): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

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