Scientific Validity of Polygraph Testing: A Research Review and Evaluation

by Office of Technology Assessment and U.S. Congress

This technical memorandum presents the results of the Office of Technology Assessment's (OTA) review and assessment of the scientific evidence on the validity of polygraph testing. OTA has limited this technical memorandum to issues directly related to the scientific validity of the polygraph. OTA did not consider utility, privacy, constitutional, and ethical issues, among others that have been raised in the debate over polygraph testing. We first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1410210707
• ISBN13: 9781410210708
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.8"