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Dec 30, 1946 77 years old
Canadian psychologist
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About R. C. L. Lindsay
- Roderick Cameron Lodge Lindsay (born December 30, 1946) is a Canadian psychologist who studies the area of psychology and law, and focuses on eyewitness memory.
- In 1974, he received his bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto and in 1978 he received his master's degree from the University of Alberta.
- Lindsay also received his Ph.
- D from the University of Alberta in 1982.As a social psychologist during his graduate training, Lindsay worked in the areas of aggression and attribution.
- After graduation he became very interested in applying psychological research and created a research program in the psychology-law area.
- In this program, Lindsay investigates the factors that influence the accuracy of eyewitness identification and reports.
- He also looks at the belief of eyewitness testimony.
- In the recent years Lindsay's studies have been on identification procedures to use with children and the courtroom procedures that are used with children witnesses.
- He also has been looking at and developing procedures that are used by the police and the courts to obtain and evaluate eyewitness evidence.Lindsay started his career in the world of psychology at Queen's University after graduation from 1982 to 1986 as an assistant professor.
- From 1986 to 1996 he spent his time as an associate professor at Queen's University.
- And since 1996 Lindsay has worked at Queen's University as a professor in the Department of Psychology.
- He also belongs to several professional associations which are the American Psychologist Association, the American Psychology-Law Society, and the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.Lindsay has received many grants in his career applying psychological research to studying eyewitness memory.
- The grants that he has received have ranged from $16,423 all the way to $184,731.
- From 1983 to 1985 he received $16,423 to study eyewitness accuracy and the belief of eyewitness testimony.
- Between 1992 and 1995 he received $82,500 to study the issues that come from eyewitness memory.
- In 2002 to 2005 Lindsay studied the credibility of children's testimony with N.
- Bala and K.
- Lee and received $150,000 to conduct the research.
- The most recent grant that he has received was in 2004 to 2009 when he received $100,000 and worked on reducing wrongful convictions.Lindsay has also testified as an expert on eyewitness issues in criminal cases and civil cases on three different continents.
- He also has consulted with individual police identification officers and departments that use re-identification procedures.
- In 2002, he provided training to Canadian judges on the issues with eyewitness identification.
- The training was developed by the National Judicial Institute and by the end of 2004, he had trained about 65% of the criminal court justices in Canada.
- Lindsay is a member of the Technical Working Group for Eyewitness Evidence and participated in the development and the writing of the American national guidelines for obtaining and preserving eyewitness evidence.
- He continues to work on developing training materials to accompany the Eyewitness Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement.
- Lindsay has also consulted in one of the United Nations war crime trails for Rwanda over genocide.
- He was asked by the United Nations prosecutors to consult with them when the defense called an expert witness to testify.
- During June and July 1998 he read e-mailed transcripts of the witness's testimony and provided the prosecutors comments and suggested questions for their cross-examination.
- In September 1998 he was called to testify in Arusha, Tanzania.
