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Polygraph Verification Test

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Abstract

This paper involves fifty-one re-examinations of original polygraph tests that resulted in conflicted outcomes and examinations where deliberate distortions were believed to have been employed. The Polygraph Validation Test (PVT) was successfully employed in these re-examinations to rectify the original problems and/or confirm attempts by examinees at countermeasures or augmentations.

Additional Resource: Using the Polygraph Validation Test (PVT) in Solving Conflicted Polygraph Results and Confirming Deliberate Distortions by Examinees (2962 downloads )

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Consequences of Policing Prostitution

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Introduction

Since 2011, The Legal Aid Society’s Exploitation Intervention Project has represented thousands of individuals, mostly women, charged with prostitution-related offenses across all five New York City boroughs, both before and since the implementation of the human trafficking intervention courts (HTICs), a statewide prostitution diversion court initiative.1 EIP provides direct representation and comprehensive services to people charged with prostitution-related offenses and survivors of trafficking facing prosecution for other offenses in New York City’s criminal courts.In addition to its advocacy in the HTICs, EIP seeks “vacatur,” or clearing, of prostitution-related and other associated offenses from past and present clients’ criminal records when it is understood that those offenses occurred as a result of human trafficking. EIP has been spearheading vacatur efforts for trafficking survivors across New York State and the rest of the country. To date, EIP has used New York’s vacatur law to clear 1,255 criminal convictions for trafficking survivors. From 2015 to 2016, EIP attorneys collected information on sociodemographic characteristics, victimization histories, and service needs...

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