ABSTRACT

As covered in this book, significant methodological and technological advances over the last few decades have been realized in the forensic sphere of deception analysis in terms of accuracy and applicability. This final chapter highlights the start of a fundamental shift from using idiosyncratic information about an individual examinee obtained from himself or herself and/or significant others, to nomothetic data obtained by using vast databases and algorithms yielding descriptors and likely behaviors of the person of interest. Where current trends will lead us in terms of our ethical codes and extant individually based methodology is unknown. The role of the forensic professional is likely to substantially change in the foreseeable future.