ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on malingering and deception in the forensic and criminal legal context. It describes several types of malingering, risk groups as well as tools to detect malingering of psychiatric and neurocognitive symptoms. Deception is a relevant issue to mental health experts, especially those involved in forensic assessments. There are two different types of deception in forensic assessments namely faking bad and faking good. Deception detection is often a complex issue. Psychopathy is a personality construct, characterised by superficial charm, inflated self-worth, impulsiveness, irresponsibility and callousness in conjunction with antisocial behaviour. According to Baker, Tabacoff, Tornusciolo, and Eisenstadt, children's prevarications related to family factors. A type of crime-related amnesia that is frequently claimed is memory loss due to an alcoholic blackout. Thus, as long as the offenders believe that the polygraph can accurately detect deception, many of them will admit their offences.
