Hall and Player

Question 1

What did Hall and player investigate?

Answer 1

•Whether context of crime affects fingerprint’s analysts decision?
•Whether crime scene report affects there decision?

Question 2

what was the sample for hall and player?

Answer 2

•70 fingerprint experts
• Met Police bereau
• Experience range from 3 months to 30years
• Mean experience 11 years

Question 3

What is the IV and DV for Hall and player?

Answer 3

• IV= High context-murder, Low context- Forgery
•DV= Read the crime scene report or not

Question 4

How did H&P investigate there hypothesis?

Answer 4

•Gave the experts a artificial task of matching a finger print.
•Fingerprint from a volunteers forefinger
•Super imposed on a £50 note
• They had to find wether it was a match, no match or not enough detail.
•Given crime scene report with fingerprint

Question 5

What were the findings from H&P?

Answer 5

•52% of the 30 were affected by the high context crime compared to 6% of the low context crime.
•No significant difference in results
•Similar decisions were made.

Question 6

What was the conclusion from H&P?

Answer 6

•Even though experts were affected by the context of the crime, there final decision was not impacted.