Lie Detectors: A Social History

by Kerry Segrave

The polygraph, most commonly known as the lie detector, was created and refined by academics in university settings with support from a few early police agencies. This work is a history of the machine, from the experimental work of the late 1800s that led directly to its creation, until the present. It covers early lie detectors and their inventors from the 1860s to the early 1920s, their use by the police and other law enforcement agencies in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786416181
• ISBN13: 9780786416189
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher