Lie Detectors
Subtitle: A Social History
Publisher: McFarland & Company; McFarland
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780786416189
Subjects: Criminal investigation & detection; Criminal or forensic psychology; Forensic Science; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Political Science; Police Science; Sociology; USA; Criminology; United States - General; History; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Lie detectors and detection; United States
Description: "The book covers early lie detectors and their inventors from the 1860s to the 1920s, their use by police and other agencies in the 1930s and their role in Cold War America in the 1940s and 1950s. It then discusses the 1960s, the PSE (a new take on the old polygraph), reliance by private businesses on the polygraph in the 1970s, and the increasing reluctance of the government to use it in the 1980s. A chapter on new ideas and uses from 1990 to 2002 concludes the book. Notes, bibliography, index."--Jacket.