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Research Outreach – Issue 132: Police deception, machine learning, and psychedelic therapy

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Research Outreach Issue 132 includes a number of articles, such as a study of a natural resin as a powerful pesticide, how phytoplankton impacted biodiversity, and how implementing solvent-based recycling could transform plastic manufacturing into a more environmentally friendly process. We also catch up with Dr Ben Sessa about his research into the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy and the work […]

Does police officer deception undermine US constitutional law?

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Professor MacLean studies the use of deception by law enforcement officers in situations such as obtaining consent to search, lying to induce a confession and other interactions with the public in order to achieve their aims or induce subjects to waive their constitutional rights, and how this undermines the social contract embedded in US constitutional law.

Deceptions by law enforcement officers raise important questions about constitutional law and the principles of criminal justice. Professor Charles MacLean is Director of Professional Peace Officer Education at the US Metro State University’s School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in Minnesota, and Lecturer in Constitutional Law at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He considers the question of the ‘social […]