skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Lengua del contenido

| français English
Ayuda para la búsqueda

Concept information

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

Término preferido

weapon focus  

Definición

  • The weapon focus effect is the tendency for witnesses who observe an armed criminal to direct their attention toward the weapon so that they fail to encode and remember information about the perpetrator's physical appearance as accurately as they would have if no weapon had been visible. This effect can have important consequences for the investigation of a crime, as the police often rely on witnesses'descriptions of a perpetrator as they attempt to identify a suspect.In lab experiments investigating weapon focus, researchers typically expose participant-witnesses to slide sequences, videos, or live enactments in which a target person holds a weapon (in the experimental condition) or a neutral object (in the control condition), although sometimes in the control condition the target is empty-handed. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Weapon Focus]

Concepto genérico

Pertenece al grupo

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GV26SGD1-2

Descargue este concepto:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD