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Lisa E. Hasel, Ph.D.
Mailing address: PO Box 117330 Gainesville, FL 32611
Office location:
Phone: (352) 294-7173 Fax: (352) 392-6569
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Lisa E. HaselAssistant Professor of Criminology____________________________________________________________________________________________Contact Information:University of Florida Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law P.O. Box 117330 Gainesville, FL 32611 Office Location: 3334 Turlington Phone: (353) 294-7173 Fax: (352) 392-6569 Email: lhasel@ufl.edu
Student Hours, Fall 2012:Tuesdays 1-2:30pm, Thursdays, 2-3:30pm, and by appointment Turlington 3334 ____________________________________________________________________________________________Welcome!My name is Lisa Hasel, and my research interests fall under the broad category of Social Cognition and Forensic/Legal Psychology. My main areas of investigation are the psychological aspects of eyewitness identifications, confessions, and alibis. The goal of much of my research is to find ways to increase the diagnosticity of criminal investigation procedures by attempting to scientifically improve the manner in which crimes are investigated. In other words, I research ways to decrease the number of innocent people who are wrongfully convicted of crimes while increasing the number of guilty people who are charged with crimes they have committed. Although research on eyewitness identification began in the early 1900’s with Hugo Munsterberg, the vast majority of research on eyewitness issues has been published from 1978 to the present. Over the past few decades, DNA exoneration cases have brought to light many miscarriages of justice that have often been due to unintentional errors during the criminal investigation process. Of the over 270 cases of wrongful imprisonment for which a person has been exonerated based on post-conviction DNA evidence, 75% involved at least one mistaken identification, 25% involved a false confession, and, ostensibly, 100% involved an alibi that was not believed by law enforcement officials and/or triers of fact. In my research, I attempt to identify, examine, and reduce the prevalence of factors, such as eyewitness errors, false confessions, and alibis that are not evaluated correctly, that lead to errors in the criminal investigation process.
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