Problems of Forensic Sciences 2001 Vol. 47 (XLVII) 237-245
A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO FORENSIC EARWITNESS IDENTIFICATION: CONSTRUCTING A VOICE LINE-UP
A. P. A. BROEDERS1, A. G. van AMELSVOORT2
1Netherlands Forensic Institute, Rijswijk, the Netherlands
2Institute for Crime Investigation and Crime Science, Zutphen, the Netherlands
Streszczenie
In the last decade there has been a growing interest in questions raised by the identification of persons by victims and witnesses based on their voices. In the absence of clear criteria for the design of earwitness identification procedures, a set of guidelines has been developed which is partly based on a tried and trusted method developed by the Dutch police and judiciary for the visual identification of persons by eyewitnesses. Parallels and differences between person identification in the visual and the auditory domains are illustrated. Some of the issues which needed to be resolved in designing the procedure laid down in the guidelines are: the choice between single and multiple formats, between repeated trials and single trials, the use of actors, the choice between verbatim text or free speech, and the choice between suspect similarity versus culprit description in the selection of foils. Critical elements of the procedure are described in detail. A condensed English version of the guidelines is available on request.
Słowa kluczowe
Voice line-up; Speaker identification; Identification by witnesses.