PHOTOGRAPHIC RECOGNITION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF BRAZILIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Abstract

Photographic recognition concerns the procedure commonly performed in the police stations of the country for the identification of the offender, however, the methods employed in its execution – show-up and album of suspects – have been shown to be vectors of contamination of the memory of the victim/ witness, promoting false recognitions and triggering the incarceration of innocent people. That said, the aim of the study is to analyze photographic recognition in the brazilian criminal justice field, through the survey of different articles, books and electronic journals, characterizing a bibliographic research of narrative nature and deductive approach. The present exposes the importance of epistemic filters to probative activity, the need for adequate protocols and trained professionals, which understand the variables that influence mnemonic processes during investigative activity, since the use of loose methods, without any criteria, by the police authorities, tends to addict the recognizer's memory when performing photographic recognition. Thus, the study of photographic recognition in the scope of Brazilian criminal justice points out the problems resulting from the way it has been employed, in a way that is in the way of the norms set and with what the doctrine and jurisprudence proclaims, without observing the contributions of the different sciences, in order to seek solutions to its failures, in view of the decrease in the number of innocent wrongly incriminated.