Andrea Arndorfer is a doctoral candidate in legal psychology at Florida International University. She received her B.S. in psychology and criminal justice studies from Iowa State University in 2010. Her research interests center on various issues at the intersection of psychology and the law such as criminal interrogation and confessions, eyewitness memory, and the social and cognitive factors influencing lineup identification decisions and post-decision judgments.
There is no question that teenagers like Marty Tankleff and the Central Park Five suffered enormous miscarriages of justice—having spent years in prison for confessing to crimes they didn’t commit.