Anachronistic Progress? User Notions of Lie Detection in the Juridical Field

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2020-08-16 DOI:10.17351/ests2020.433

Bettina Paul, Larissa Fischer, Torsten H. Voigt

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Abstract

In recent years, progress in the field of lie detection has been linked to technological advances from classic polygraphs to neuroscientific brain imaging. In our empirical investigation, however, we found different notions of progress that do not comply with the popular understanding of progress as technological innovation. We follow the users of lie detection procedures in Germany in order to discern how they embrace seemingly old technologies and frame them in terms of novelty and improvement. We identify two notions of progress: one view of the polygraph in the juridical field as an instrument for procedural justice, and another view in which the device functions as a symbol of openness to improvements in the judicial system. These insights complement contemporary scholarship on lie detection by shining a critical light on the rhetoric of progress in relation to the promises of brain-based lie detection procedures. When analyzing the way polygraph tests are seen as progress, it becomes clear that the promises and hopes that are linked to this technology are of more relevance for its appraisal than its placement in time.

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时效性进展？法律领域测谎的用户概念

近年来，测谎领域的进步与从经典测谎仪到神经科学脑成像的技术进步有关。然而，在我们的实证调查中，我们发现不同的进步概念并不符合将进步视为技术创新的普遍理解。我们跟踪德国测谎程序的用户，以辨别他们如何接受看似陈旧的技术，并根据新颖性和改进来构建它们。我们确定了两种进步概念:一种观点认为测谎仪在司法领域是一种程序正义的工具，另一种观点认为测谎仪的功能是对司法系统改进持开放态度的象征。这些见解补充了当代关于测谎的学术研究，为基于大脑的测谎程序的发展前景提供了关键的线索。当分析测谎仪测试被视为进步的方式时，很明显，与这项技术相关的承诺和希望与它的评估更相关，而不是它在时间上的位置。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.