- Additional Authors
- Sarat, Austin
- Description
- 1 online resource (344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Summary
- Law has a strangely complicated relationship to deception. Though it sometimes takes a hard line on behalf of truth - 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' - competing values often cause law to look the other way. How and why is lying alternately accepted, condemned, or prosecuted? What are the government's interests in allowing or disallowing lying? Law and Lies is the first book to thematically address the role of lying in the American legal system. Undercover police agents are permitted to lie in the name of catching criminals, and government officials are permitted to lie in service of national security. In the case of the military's 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy, lying was not only permitted, but actively encouraged. A range of illuminating case studies reveal that the government's tolerance of deception is rarely as simple as the 'whole truth'.
- Alternative Title
- Law & Lies
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 May 2016).
- OCLC
- CR9781316258293
- Title
Law and Lies : Deception and Truth-Telling in the American Legal System / edited by Austin Sarat.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Sarat, Austin, editor.
- Other Form:
Print version: 9781107108783