Hey Rascal....

I encourage you to do your report on the fraud called the polygraph...

A great source of information exists on this very site.

On the main page of Antipolygraph.org,  there is a blue box containing links (Message board, etc).  You will also notice a link titled "Reading Room."   

Go to this section of antipolygraph.org for info to use in your paper.

I also strongly encourage you to let your classmates--particularly fellow crim-just students--know about the issue you are taking up for your paper.

A good outline would be to discuss the following:
      
      1.History of polygraph (developed by same man 
        who invented the wonder-woman comic....her
        lasso wrapped around people and forced them 
        to tell the truth!)
      2.The use of the polygraph today in law enforcement
        hiring procedures.
      3.Discuss the fact that the poly is--in reality--used
         only to obtain confessions (scare them out of you)
         that they would never otherwise get out of you.
      4.Discuss how the polygraph works,  and how it 
         depends on the examiner Deceiving YOU,
       5.Discuss how it is easy to beat the polygraph.
          End on this subject so that it sticks in their heads.

Another obvious source of info on the poly is available in the 
downloadable book "The lie behind the lie detector" which is
free to download on this site.

Studies proving the polygraph can be beat are easily available (have some that I read myself) if you can do a professional journals search (they appear in psych journals and the like).

Good luck,  and I BEG OF YOU to take part in the campus poster initiative. 

Sincerely,

Poster-Boy