Polygraph in law enforcement activities

A Focused Polygraph Technique for PCSOT and Law Enforcement Screening Programs

Testing techniques most commonly used in polygraph screening programs were adapted from protocols originally developed for event-specific investigative polygraph testing, including the examination structures and decision rules. Screening examinations are being increasingly recognized for providing a unique and powerful tool for decision-makers and with the widening demand for polygraph screenin...

Patterns of Alcohol Policy Enforcement Activities among Local Law Enforcement Agencies: A Latent Class Analysis.

AIMS We assessed levels and patterns of alcohol policy enforcement activities among U.S. local law enforcement agencies. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS We conducted a cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of 1,631 local law enforcement agencies across the 50 states. MEASURES/METHODS We assessed 29 alcohol policy enforcement activities within each of five enforcement domains-underag...

Psychotherapy as law enforcement.

Legal doctrines do not stand still, but instead evolve and tend to grow and to spawn what law school academicians fondly term progeny. Tarasoff is no exception. In an expanding list of court decisions, psychiatric patients are being convicted of crimes by virtue of actions by their psychiatrists or psychotherapists purportedly based on the duty to warn. One recent case has featured surreptitiou...

Military involvement in law enforcement

Law enforcement is not a task usually undertaken by military forces, at least within domestic legal contexts. Conversely, maintaining or restoring security within dysfunctional or ‘post-conflict’ areas of operation is a role commonly undertaken by them. Within these latter operations, the skill sets and highly calibrated application of force that are commonly associated with police forces in th...

Conservation Law Enforcement in Michigan