Steven D Penrod J.D., Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
 Department of Psychology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice 
City University of New York 
445 West 59th Street 
New York, NY 10019 
ph: [212] 237-8877      spenrod@jjay.cuny.edu
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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Harvard 1979
J.D. Harvard Law 1974
B.A. Yale 1969


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001- Distinguished Professor of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
1995-2001 Director of Law and Psychology Program Prof of Psychology & Prof of Law-University of Nebraska
1989-1995 Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
1990-1995 Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota
1979-89 Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin
1971-1973 Legal Officer in Naval Judge Advocate General Corps

 
Full Curriculum Vita ( in PDF format)     (NOTE: Acrobat.PDF file viewer available at:  http://www.adobe.com]

RECENT PUBLICATIONS on eyewitness reliability, expert evidence, pretrial publicity and change of venue

NOTE: for (p)reprints you can download the highlighted references in adobe.pdf format. BUT--in the interest of keeping copyrights protected, the files are "locked"--simply email Steve at [spenrod@jjay.cuny.edu] for the "key".  Please email if you see a broken link.  

  Daftary-Kapur, T., Dumas, R. & Penrod, S.D. (In press).  Jury decision-making biases and methods to counter them.  Legal and Criminological Psychology.

  Groscup, J. & Penrod, S. D. (2009). Appellate Review and Eyewitness Experts. In Brian Cutler (Ed.). Expert Testimony on the Psychology of Eyewitness Identification.  NY: Oxford.
  Penrod, S. & Kovera, M. B. (2009).  Recent developments in North American identification science and practice. In: Bull, R., Valentine, T. & Williamson, T., (Eds.). Handbook of Psychology of Investigative Interviewing. Current Developments and Future Directions. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
  Penrod, S. & Kurosawa, K. (2008). Eyewitness errors: Assessing their extent, causes, and solutions. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 7, 36-62.
  Bornstein, B. H. & Penrod, S.D. (2008). Hugo Who? G.F. Arnold’s Alternative Early Approach to Psychology and Law. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 759-768.
  Deffenbacher, K. A.; Bornstein, B. H.; McGorty, K. & Penrod, S. D. (2008). Forgetting the Once-Seen Face: Estimating the Strength of an Eyewitness’s Memory Representation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14, 139-150.
  Heuer, L., Penrod, S., & Kattan, A.  (2007). The role of societal benefits and fairness concerns among decision makers and decision recipients.  Law and Human Behavior, 31, 573-610.   
  Penrod, S. D. & Bornstein, B. H. (2007). Generalizing Eyewitness Reliability Research. In R.C.L. Lindsay, D. Ross, D Read & M. Toglia, (Eds.), Handbook of eyewitness psychology (Vol. II): Memory for people. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  Van Wallendael, L.R., Devenport, J., Cutler, B.L. & Penrod, S. (2007). Mistaken Identification=Erroneous Convictions? Assessing and Improving Legal Safeguards.  In R.C.L. Lindsay, D. Ross, D Read & M. Toglia, (Eds.), Handbook of eyewitness psychology (Vol. II): Memory for people. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  Wells, G. L., Memon, A. & Penrod, S. D. (2006). Eyewitness Evidence: Improving its Probative Value.  Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 7, 45-75.
  Deffenbacher, K. A.; Bornstein, B. H.; & Penrod, S. D. (2006).  Mugshot exposure effects: retroactive interference, mugshot commitment, source confusion, and unconscious transference. Law and Human Behavior, 30, 287-307.
  Robbennolt, J., Groscup, J. & Penrod, S. & Heuer, L. (2005). Evaluating and Assisting Jury Competence in Civil and Criminal Cases. In I. Weiner & A. Hess (ed.), Handbook of Forensic Psychology (23nd Ed.). New York: Wiley.
  Studebaker, C. A. & Penrod, S. D. (2005).  Pretrial Publicity and Its Influence on Juror Decision Making.  In N. Brewer & K. D. Williams, Psychology and Law: An Empirical Perspective.  New York: Guilford.
  Doyle, J. M., Penrod, S., Kovera, M. B. & Dysart, J. (2006).  The street, the lab, the courtroom, the meeting room.  Public Interest Law Reporter, 11, 13-16, 31, 46.
  Penrod, S. (2005). Eyewitnesses. In L. E. Sullivan & M. S. Rosen (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, Vol. 1.  Thousand Oaks: Sage.
  Penrod, S. (2005). Lineups. In L. E. Sullivan & M. S. Rosen (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, Vol. 1.  Thousand Oaks: Sage.
  O'Neil, K.M., Patry, M. W., & Penrod, S. D. (2004). Exploring the effects of attitudes toward the death penalty on capital sentencing verdicts.  Psychology, Public Policy and Law, 10, 443-470.
  Deffenbacher, K. A.; Bornstein, B. H.; Penrod, S. D. & McGorty, K. (2004).   A Meta-Analytic Review of the Effects of High Stress on Eyewitness Memory.  Law and Human Behavior, 28, 687-706.
  The Nature and Scope of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States: The John Jay Study (2004).  http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/churchstudy/
  Hollin, C., van Koppen, P., Penrod, S. (2004). Editorial. Psychology, Crime & Law.,10, 1-3.
  Groscup, J.L. & Penrod, S. D. (2003). Battle of the Standards for Experts in Criminal Cases: Police vs. Psychologists. Seton Hall Law Review, 33, 1141-1165.
  O'Neil, K.M., Penrod, S. D.,  & Bornstein, B. H. (2003).  Web-based Research: Methodological Variables' Effects on Dropout and Sample Characteristics.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 35. 217-236. 
  Penrod, S. (2003).  Eyewitness Identification Evidence: How Well Are Witnesses and Police Performing? Criminal Justice Magazine, Spring, 36-47, 54.
  McAuliff, B. D.,  Nemeth, R. J., Bornstein, B. H., Penrod, S.D. (2003). Juror Decision-Making in the 21st Century: Confronting Science and Technology in Court.  In D. Carson & R. Bull (Eds.), Handbook of psychology in legal contexts (2nd ed.).  New York: Wiley.
  Heuer, L., Penrod, S. Hafer, C. & Cohn, I. (2002). The role of resource and relational concerns for procedural justice.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1468-1482.
  Groscup, J., Penrod, S., Studebaker, C., Huss, M., & O’Neil, K. (2002).   The Effects of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals on the Admissibility of Expert Testimony in State and Federal Criminal Cases. Psychology, Public Policy & Law, 8, 339-372.
  van Koppen, P.J., & Penrod, S.D. (Eds.). (2002). Adversarial versus inquisitorial justice: Psychological perspectives on criminal justice systems. New York: Plenum.
  van Koppen, P.J., & Penrod, S.D. (2002). Adversarial or Inquisitorial: Comparing Systems.   In van Koppen, P.J., & Penrod, S.D. (Eds.).  Adversarial versus inquisitorial justice: Psychological perspectives on criminal justice systems. New York: Plenum.
  van Koppen, P.J., & Penrod, S.D. (2002). The John Wayne and Judge Dee Versions of Justice. In van Koppen, P.J., & Penrod, S.D. (Eds.).  Adversarial versus inquisitorial justice: Psychological perspectives on criminal justice systems. New York: Plenum.
 Stolle, D. P,  Robbennolt, J. K, Patry, M. & Penrod, S.D.  (2002).  Fractional Factorial Designs for Legal Psychology.  Behavioral Sciences and Law,  20, 5-17
 Greene, E., Chopra, S., Kovera, M. B., Penrod, S., Rose, V. G., Schuller, R., & Studebaker, C. (2002).  Jurors and juries:  A review of the field.  In J. R. P. Ogloff, Ed. Taking Psychology and Law into the Twenty First Century. New York: Kluwer.
 Studebaker, C. A., Robbennolt, J. K., Penrod, S. D., Pathak-Sharma, M. K., Groscup, J. L. and Devenport, J. L. (2002). Studying Pretrial Publicity Effects:  New Methods for Testing and Improving External Validity. Law and Human Behavior, 26, 19-41.
 O'Neil, K. M.; Penrod, S. D. (2001). Methodological variables in Web-based research that may affect results: Sample type, monetary incentives, and personal information.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers. 33, 226-233.
 Studebaker, C. A., Robbennolt, J. K., Pathak-Sharma, M. K., & Penrod S. D.  (2000). Assessing Pretrial Publicity Effects: Integrating Content Analytic Results.  Law and Human Behavior, 24, 317-336.
 Vidmar, N., et al.   (2000).  Amicus brief: Kumho Tire v. Carmichael.  Law & Human Behavior. 24, 387-400
 Penrod, S. & Cutler, B.L. (1999). The case against traditional safeguards: Preventing mistaken convictions in eyewitness identification trials. .R. Roesch & S. Hart, Psychology and Law: State of the Discipline. Plenum: New York.
 Studebaker, C., Devenport, J. & Penrod, S. (1999). Perspectives on jury decisionmaking: Cases with pretrial publicity and cases based on eyewitness identifications. In F. Durso (ed.), Handbook of Law and Psychology. New York: Wiley.
 Wells, G.L., Small. M., Penrod, S., Malpass, R. S., Fulero, S. M. & Brimacombe, C. A. E. (1999). Eyewitness identification procedures: Recommendations for lineups and photospreads. Law and Human Behavior, 23, 603-647.
 Robbennolt, J., Penrod, S. & Heuer, L. (1999). Assessing and aiding jury competence. In A. Hess & I. Weiner (eds.), Handbook of Forensic Psychology (2nd Ed.). New York: Wiley.
 Penrod, S. & Heuer, L.B. (1998). Improving group performance: The case of the jury. In R. S. Tindale, L. Heath, J. Edwards, E. J. Posavac, F. B. Bryant, Y. Suarez-Balacazar, E. Henderson-King & J. Meyers, Theory and Research on Small Groups. New York: Plenum.
 Dexter, H.R., Penrod, S. D., & Saunders, D. (1997). Attributing responsibility to female victims after exposure to sexually violent films. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27, 2149.
 Penrod, S. & Heuer, L.B. (1997). Tweaking Commonsense: Assessing Aids to Jury Decision Making. Psychology, Public Policy & Law, 3, 259-284.
 Devenport, J. L., Penrod, S. D., & Cutler, B. L. (1997). Eyewitness identification evidence: Evaluating commonsense evaluations. Psychology, Public Policy & Law, 3, 338-361.
 Studebaker, C. A & Penrod, S. D. (1997). Pretrial publicity: The media, the law and common sense. Psychology, Public Policy & Law, 3, 428-460.
 Krafka, C., Linz, D., Donnerstein, E., & Penrod, S. (1997). Women's reactions to sexually aggressive mass media depictions. Violence Against Women, 3, 149-181.
 Kovera, M., Penrod, S. D., Pappas, C. Thill, D. (1997). Identification of computer-generated facial composites. Journal of Applied Psychology, 82, 235-246.
 Heuer, L.B. & Penrod, S. (1996). Increasing juror participation in trials through notetaking and question asking. Judicature, 79. 256-262.
 Smith, B., Penrod, S.D., Park, R., & Otto, A. (1996). Jurors' use of probabilistic evidence. Law and Human Behavior, 20. 49-82.
 Narby, D.J., Cutler, B.L., & Penrod, S. (1996). The effects of witness, target, and situational factors on eyewitness identifications. In Sporer, S.L., Malpass, R. & Koehnken, G. (Eds.). Psychological Issues in Eyewitness Identification. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
 Penrod, S.D., Fulero, S. & Cutler, B. (1995). Expert psychological testimony on eyewitness reliability before and after Daubert. Behavioral Sciences and the Law 13, 229-260.
 Penrod, S. & Cutler, B. (1995). Witness confidence and witness accuracy: Assessing their forensic relation. Psychology, Public Policy & Law & , 1, 817-845.
 Sporer, S., Penrod, S.D., Read, D. & Cutler, B.L. (1995). Gaining confidence in confidence: A new meta-analysis on the confidence-accuracy relationship in eyewitness identification studies. Psychological Bulletin, 118, 315-327.
 Cutler, B.L. & Penrod, S.D. (1995). Mistaken identifications: The eyewitness, psychology, and law. New York: Cambridge University Press.
 Heuer, L.B. & Penrod, S. (1995). Jury decisionmaking in complex trials. In R. Bull & D. Carson (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
 Cutler, B.L. & Penrod, S. (1995). Assessing the accuracy of eyewitness identifications. In R. Bull & D. Carson (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
 Penrod, S.D., Fulero, S. & Cutler, B. (1995). Expert psychological testimony in the United States: A new playing field? European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 11, 65-72.

PUBLICATIONS (1979-1994)