Lie Detection and the Law : Torture, Technology and Truth / Andrew Balmer.
2018
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Author
Title
Lie Detection and the Law : Torture, Technology and Truth / Andrew Balmer.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 185 pages).
Series
Law, science and society.
Formatted Contents Note
chapter 1 Torture, technology and truth / Andrew Balmer
chapter 2 Truth and lies from torture to technology / Andrew Balmer
chapter 3 The polygraph machine in the United States criminal courts / Andrew Balmer
chapter 4 The exclusionary toolkit / Andrew Balmer
chapter 5 Polygraph uncertainties in the law / Andrew Balmer
chapter 6 Polygraph interrogations / Andrew Balmer
chapter 7 Subjects of suspicion / Andrew Balmer
chapter 8 Lying / Andrew Balmer.
chapter 2 Truth and lies from torture to technology / Andrew Balmer
chapter 3 The polygraph machine in the United States criminal courts / Andrew Balmer
chapter 4 The exclusionary toolkit / Andrew Balmer
chapter 5 Polygraph uncertainties in the law / Andrew Balmer
chapter 6 Polygraph interrogations / Andrew Balmer
chapter 7 Subjects of suspicion / Andrew Balmer
chapter 8 Lying / Andrew Balmer.
Summary
"This book develops a sociological account of lie detection practices and uses this to think about lying more generally. Bringing together insights from sociology, social history, socio-legal studies and science and technology studies (STS), it explores how torture and technology have been used to try to discern the truth. It examines a variety of socio-legal practices, including trial by ordeal in Europe, the American criminal jury trial, police interrogations using the polygraph machine, and the post-conviction management of sex offenders in the USA and the UK. Moving across these different contexts, it articulates how uncertainties in the use of lie detection technologies are managed, and the complex roles they play in legal spaces. Alongside this story, the book surveys some of the different ways in which lying is understood in philosophy, law and social order. Lie Detection and the Law will be of interest to STS researchers, socio-legal scholars, criminologists and sociologists, as well as others working at the intersections of law and science."--Provided by publisher.
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Alternate Title
Taylor & Francis Online
Language
English
ISBN
9781315720258 (e-book : PDF)
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