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    Polygraphs and Sex Offenders: The truth is out there

    Marshall, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4795-5392 and Thomas, Terry (2015) Polygraphs and Sex Offenders: The truth is out there. Probation Journal: the journal of community and criminal justice, 62 (2). ISSN 0264-5505

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    Abstract

    Polygraphs (or lie detectors) have been introduced into the UK for the first time despite continuing concerns about their reliability and the ways in which they will be deployed. The police are enabled to use them on a ‘voluntary’ basis and the probation service on a ‘mandatory’ basis if their use has been made a condition of post-custodial supervision. This article seeks to bring the polygraph story up to date and pose the questions that are still unanswered as the use of the polygraph begins

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 10 Feb 2022 12:08
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Additional Information: This is an Author Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Probation Journal: the journal of community and criminal justice by Sage.
    Divisions: Faculties > Arts and Humanities
    Research Centres > Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences
    Subject terms: 1602 Criminology
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/629114
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550515571395
    ISSN 0264-5505
    e-ISSN 1741-3079

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