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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Justice Voluntary Sector

Presentation / Conference
Skelton, F., & Haddow, C. (2023, September)
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Justice Voluntary Sector. Paper presented at European Society of Criminology (Eurocrim), Florence
Though the Justice Voluntary Sector (JVS) has long supported statutory organisations, recent years have seen the sector becoming enmeshed with the Criminal Justice System and ...

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Justice Voluntary Sector

Report
Skelton, F., & Haddow, C. (2022)
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Justice Voluntary Sector. Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector Forum
Executive summary This report presents findings from two research projects exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on third sector justice organisations and workers in ...

The influence of bias on line-up identification decisions: Is face recognition ability a factor?

Presentation / Conference
Skelton, F., & Curley, L. (2021, May)
The influence of bias on line-up identification decisions: Is face recognition ability a factor?. Paper presented at SIPR: Applied Cognitive Psychology in Forensic Settings, Online

The importance of detailed context reinstatement for the production of identifiable composite faces from memory

Journal Article
Fodarella, C., Marsh, J. E., Chu, S., Athwal-Kooner, P., Jones, H. S., Skelton, F. C., …Frowd, C. D. (2021)
The importance of detailed context reinstatement for the production of identifiable composite faces from memory. Visual Cognition, 29(3), 180-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1890292
Memory is facilitated by reflecting upon, or revisiting, the environment in which information was encoded. We investigated these “context reinstatement” (CR) techniques to imp...

Constructing identifiable composite faces: The importance of cognitive alignment of interview and construction procedure

Journal Article
Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., Hancock, P. J. B., Jones, H. S., Jones, B. C., Fodarella, C., …Logan, K. (2020)
Constructing identifiable composite faces: The importance of cognitive alignment of interview and construction procedure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(3), 507-521. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000257
We investigated the impact of congruency between the witness interview and method used to construct a composite face. Experiment 1, using a typical feature-by-feature composi...

When They See Us: Why did the Central Park Five give false confessions?

Digital Artefact
Watson, F. (2019)
When They See Us: Why did the Central Park Five give false confessions?. [Newspaper article]

The impact of external facial features on the construction of facial composites

Journal Article
Brown, C., Portch, E., Skelton, F. C., Fodarella, C., Kuivaniemi-Smith, H., Herold, K., …Frowd, C. D. (2019)
The impact of external facial features on the construction of facial composites. Ergonomics, 62(4), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2018.1556816
Witnesses may construct a composite face of a perpetrator using a computerised interface. Police practitioners guide witnesses through this unusual process, the goal being to ...

Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: the impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator

Journal Article
Marsh, J. E., Patel, K., Labonté, K., Battersby, K. L., Frowd, C. D., Ball, L. J., …Vachon, F. (2017)
Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: the impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(3), 183-190. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000101
Cell-phone conversation is ubiquitous within public spaces. The current study investigates whether ignored cell-phone conversation impairs eyewitness memory for a perpetrator....

Facial Composites: Aligning Interview Techniques and Construction Procedures using PROfit

Presentation / Conference
Skelton, F. (2017, June)
Facial Composites: Aligning Interview Techniques and Construction Procedures using PROfit. Paper presented at Bridging the Gap: Applied Face Recognition, Stirling, UK

The impact of auditory face descriptions on recognition of own- and other-race faces

Presentation / Conference
Skelton, F., Marsh, J., Frowd, C., & Crawford, J. (2016, July)
The impact of auditory face descriptions on recognition of own- and other-race faces. Paper presented at European Association of Psychology and Law annual conference, University of Toulouse