Görgü Tanığı Belleği Araştırmaları ve Yasal Uygulamalar: Tarihsel Bir Bakış

Yıl 2018, Cilt: 2 Sayı: 4, 271 - 279, 24.12.2018

Pınar Kurdoğlu Ersoy

https://doi.org/10.31461/ybpd.472700

Öz

Görgü tanığı belleğinin güvenilirliği, adalet sistemleri açısından büyük önem taşımaktadır. Tanık belleğindeki bellek hataları, hem suçluların tespit edilememesi hem de tanıkların yanlış teşhisi nedeniyle yanlış kişilerin mahkum edilmesi gibi kritik sonuçlar doğurabilmektedir. Bu nedenle, yasal uygulamaların görgü tanığı belleği araştırmalarından elde edilen bulgulardan yararlanılarak düzenlenmesinin önemi büyüktür. Bu makale, kronolojik bir perspektif ile tanık belleği araştırmalarının yüz yılı aşan tarihindeki önemli bulguları derlemeye ve görgü tanıklığı konusundaki yasal düzenlemeleri bu bulgular ışığında incelemeye odaklanmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Görgü Tanıklığı, Görgü Tanığı Belleği, Sahte Anılar, Bellek Hataları

Eyewitness Memory Research and Legal Practices: A Historical Perspective

Öz

The reliability of eyewitness memory is of great importance for justice system. Memory errors in eyewitness testimonials may lead to serious consequences such as the inability to find the real perpetrators as well as wrongful convictions due to eyewitness misidentification. Therefore, it is crucial for legal practices to get benefit from the emprical evidences in eyewitness memory research. From a historical perspective, this article focuses on the critical findings in eyewitness memory research over a century, and its links to legal practices.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Eyewitness Testimony, Eyewitness Memory, False Memories, Memory Errors

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