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postgraduate thesis: The impact of timing of disclosure and type of crime on alibi believability
Title | The impact of timing of disclosure and type of crime on alibi believability |
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Issue Date | 2024 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Liu, X. [刘相宜], Zhang, R. [张若颖]. (2024). The impact of timing of disclosure and type of crime on alibi believability. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | The purpose of this research study is to research the influence of the time of disclosure and the type of crime on the reliability of the alibi. The research provided a questionnaire to individuals in a substitute criminal activity scenario, offering them with various criminal offense situations and their particular alibis. The timing of disclosure was manipulated in our situations, presenting the alibi on the 2-day and 20-day after the criminal activity. The kind of crime was differed by offering circumstances of prohibited access, building stealing and murder. The outcomes showed that the timing of alibi disclosure substantially influenced reputation, with alibis given on the day after the offense being much more reliable than alibis provided on the twentieth day after the offence. Furthermore, the type of criminal activity had a significant result on the plausibility of the alibi, with participants most likely to think alibi for home crimes than for terrible criminal offenses. These searchings for not just have important effects for the criminal justice system, yet additionally highlight the need to examine alibis in criminal investigations from all elements, consisting of the type of criminal activity and the timing of the alibi; It likewise supplies new ideas and instructions for the follow-up study.
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Degree | Master of Social Sciences |
Subject | Alibi |
Dept/Program | Criminology |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/352844 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Liu, Xiangyi | - |
dc.contributor.author | 刘相宜 | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Ruoying | - |
dc.contributor.author | 张若颖 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-08T06:46:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2025-01-08T06:46:36Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Liu, X. [刘相宜], Zhang, R. [张若颖]. (2024). The impact of timing of disclosure and type of crime on alibi believability. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/352844 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this research study is to research the influence of the time of disclosure and the type of crime on the reliability of the alibi. The research provided a questionnaire to individuals in a substitute criminal activity scenario, offering them with various criminal offense situations and their particular alibis. The timing of disclosure was manipulated in our situations, presenting the alibi on the 2-day and 20-day after the criminal activity. The kind of crime was differed by offering circumstances of prohibited access, building stealing and murder. The outcomes showed that the timing of alibi disclosure substantially influenced reputation, with alibis given on the day after the offense being much more reliable than alibis provided on the twentieth day after the offence. Furthermore, the type of criminal activity had a significant result on the plausibility of the alibi, with participants most likely to think alibi for home crimes than for terrible criminal offenses. These searchings for not just have important effects for the criminal justice system, yet additionally highlight the need to examine alibis in criminal investigations from all elements, consisting of the type of criminal activity and the timing of the alibi; It likewise supplies new ideas and instructions for the follow-up study. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Alibi | - |
dc.title | The impact of timing of disclosure and type of crime on alibi believability | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Social Sciences | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Criminology | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2024 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991044890308203414 | - |