Familiarity and Conviction in the Criminal Justice System: Definitions, Theory, and Eyewitness ResearchEyewitness research has focused mainly on stranger identification, but identification is also critical for the familiar stranger, and understanding how variability in an eyewitness's familiarity with the perpetrator may influence recall and recognition accuracy will facilitate swifter and more just resolutions to crime. Familiarity and Conviction in the Criminal Justice System examines the notion of familiarity between an eyewitness victim and a