Obtaining eyewitness accounts after an event can aid criminal investigations. Mental
Reinstatement of Context (MRC) is used to improve memory. However, direct comparisons …

Purpose The study aims to examine what laypersons expect those corroborating an alibi to
remember about an interaction with an alibi provider. Design/methodology/approach …

The authors argue that defining what constitutes an erroneous alibi may be more difficult
than seems at first glance, and how the effect of an incorrect statement can be long-lasting …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the ability of innocent suspects to produce
accurate alibis, as well as to identify procedures police interviewers can use to increase the …

The extant literature on the psychology of alibis has focused primarily on documenting
various limitations associated with alibi evidence, as opposed to developing practical …

The study of psychology in law is integrally linked to wrongful convictions. Archival research
and case studies of cases in which the wrong person was convicted of a crime provide real …

While the majority of alibi research to date has been in the American system, this chapter
takes a deeper look at the ways in which our adversarial system structure might impact the …

When innocent suspects provide a statement to convince police interviewers of their
innocence of a crime, this statement becomes their alibi. However, the fallibility of human …