In the laboratory, false alarm responses in recollection and recognition may be either a disturbance (if researchers' focus is correct performance) or an interesting phenomenon worthy of serious scientific investigation (see false memory research), all without much consequence for participants...
...One of the most disconcerting aspects of the literature review on the likelihood of false convictions is the lag between research findings on one side and the law and its applications by the justice system on the other.
Discrepancies between the two domains are mostly responsible for flaws exhibited by the current justice system, which, regretfully, encompass all of its three acknowledged pursuits (legislative, adjudication, and corrections). Flaws of different magnitude and consequences are so staggering that one may ask whether the conviction of actual guilty parties is merely an accident in a system where subjectivity reigns...
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