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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > law and society > psychology and law > eyewitness memory > retention interval and eyewitness memory
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > law and courts > law and society > psychology and law > eyewitness memory > retention interval and eyewitness memory

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retention interval and eyewitness memory  

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  • Retention interval refers to the amount of time that elapses between the end of a witness's encounter with a perpetrator and any subsequent testing of the witness's memory for that encounter. Testing of a witness's memory for a perpetrator's identity is obviously important whenever the prosecution seeks to prove that the perpetrator and the defendant are indeed the same person. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Retention Interval and Eyewitness Memory]

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