National Criminal Justice Reference Service
NCJRS - http://www.ncjrs.gov
NCJRS hosts one of the largest criminal justice databases in the world. It also list upcoming conferences for those working or interested in criminal justice issues.
Dr. Gary Wells' Website
Gary L. Wells (Ph.D. from Ohio State University, 1977) is Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University and holds the title of Distinguished Professor. Wells is also Director of Social Science Research at the American Judicature Society’s Institute of Forensic Science and Public Policy in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is an internationally recognized scholar in scientific psychology and his studies of eyewitness memory are widely known and cited. Wells has authored over 150 articles and chapters and two books. Most of this work has been focused on the reliability of eyewitness identification. His research on eyewitness identification is funded by the National Science Foundation and his findings have been incorporated into standard textbooks in psychology and law. His studies demonstrate that rates of mistaken eyewitness identification can be exacerbated by the methods that crime investigators use in conducting lineups and photo spreads. His theories and staged-crime experiments led to the development of the sequential lineup. His research-based proposals on lineup procedures, such as the use of double-blind techniques, are being increasingly accepted in law enforcement practices across the U.S. He has served as an expert for the defense, prosecution, and plaintiffs in criminal and civil cases across the U.S. and Canada. He has given more than 100 workshops and presentations to trial judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and police across the U.S. and Canada in the last five years. He was a founding member of the U.S. Department of Justice group that developed the first set of national guidelines for eyewitness evidence. He co-chaired the panel that wrote the Justice Department training manual for law enforcement on the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence, which has been distributed to every law enforcement agency in the U.S.
http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/FACULTY/gwells/homepage.htm
Eyewitness Identification Reform Blog
This blog is focused on the law and policies addressing eyewitness IDs, including police procedures, the admission of eyewitness testimony in the courtroom, and the findings of social science research regarding eyewitness memory.