TY - BOOK ID - 85296624 TI - Law and lies PY - 2015 SN - 1316371972 1316375978 1316377970 1316376974 1316374971 1316378977 1316258297 1107108780 1107519705 1316365972 9781316374979 9781316258293 9781107108783 9781316378977 9781107519701 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Deception KW - Fraud KW - Torts KW - Truthfulness and falsehood KW - Believability KW - Credibility KW - Falsehood KW - Lying KW - Post-truth KW - Untruthfulness KW - Reliability KW - Truth KW - Honesty KW - Chicanery KW - Deceit KW - Subterfuge KW - Intrigue UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85296624 AB - 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'. ER -