ABSTRACT

The purpose of the essay is to provide the specialist of different areas related to judiciary psychology an informative material about the way that polygraph technique is used and appreciated in Romania. Various and controversial discussion about its use and value in judiciary area took place in time and they still do. But it must not be forgot that the value of an instrument is given by the ability and the experience of those who use it. Real specialists can obtain unsuspectable results (in short time) where intuition can lead to failure, while fake specialists, relying on empirism, contribute in order to avoid judiciary principles, so that the criminal can escape the regeurs of law. The prove of the real value of a scientific technique is given by the results it offers, but also by its limits. In the last century, due the extraordinary results obtained in the investigation of the simulated behavior with the polygraph technique, the number of the countries that uses it is increasing. Thus, the areas in which it can be used is larger and more various, so that in our day it appears in the criminal investigation but also in different domains of social life (selecting and evaluating staff, checking the loyalty of the employees of the agency etc.). Some supporters of polygraph technique say that continuous experimenting and perfectioning of the specialists are the ways that imperfections, while can still appear when using polygraph technique, are eliminated. More and more specialists from legal area are convinced that the investigation of the simulated behavior with the polygraph technique is of a grate value, and they use its services more and more, contributing to the generalization of the method.