Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Science on the rise: birth and development of the Concealed Information Test
- 1 Encouraging the use of the Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT): what the GKT has to offer law enforcement
- Part II The laboratory: theoretical and empirical foundations of the Concealed Information Test
- Part III Field applications of concealed information detection: promises and perils
- Part IV Conclusions
- Index
- References
1 - Encouraging the use of the Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT): what the GKT has to offer law enforcement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Science on the rise: birth and development of the Concealed Information Test
- 1 Encouraging the use of the Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT): what the GKT has to offer law enforcement
- Part II The laboratory: theoretical and empirical foundations of the Concealed Information Test
- Part III Field applications of concealed information detection: promises and perils
- Part IV Conclusions
- Index
- References
Summary
Overview: The Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT) has gained favor with academic psychology, but outside of Japan, it is seldom used in the field. Although the low likelihood of false positives constitutes a major advantage of the GKT, this feature has not provided sufficient impetus for the GKT to be adopted in police work due to concerns about false negatives and the possibility that the GKT may not be applicable in many crimes. Largely ignored are the facts that failed GKTs provide strong prima facie evidence of guilt and that steps can be taken to increase the number of cases for which the GKT is applicable. In many respects, GKT results have properties similar to fingerprint evidence, and few would dispute the value of fingerprints in solving crimes. Emphasis on these aspects of the GKT could go a long way toward encouraging its greater use by law enforcement.
It is a fitting tribute to David Lykken that a half century after the initial publication of his two papers that introduced psychology to the Guilty Knowledge Test (Lykken, 1959, 1960; also referred to as the Concealed Information Test, or CIT), this book is capturing GKT history and providing a foundation for the next fifty years of research on applied memory detection. It is not well known that when Lykken undertook these studies, his goal was not to provide an alternative to the lie detection techniques that were in vogue at the time.
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- Memory DetectionTheory and Application of the Concealed Information Test, pp. 12 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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