Written by two experts who have conducted over 15,000 interviews and interrogations from theft to homicide, this book expands on the valuable topics in the previous edition to include discussions of
False Confessions
Telephone interviewing
Field Interviewing
Sexual Harassment Interviewing
Confronting the Alleged Harrasser
Pre-employment Interviewing
New Legal Aspects
Juvenile Interviewing
Common Mistakes
Frequently Asked Questions
Useful in both the law enforcement and private sectors, Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation, Second Edition allows you to deal effectively with the complex problems of interviewing and interrogating victims, witnesses, suspects, and even potential employees.
Features
• Covers the entire sequence of events that occur during the interview and interrogation process
• Presents the development of behavioral models (body language)of truthful and untruthful suspects
• Includes the development of methodology to solicit confessions consistently from guilty suspects
• Provides an application of behavioral clues to the interrogation process to give direction to the interrogator
• Discusses the causes of denial
• Presents interviews with criminals to understand how they perceive the world and view the police function
• Includes over 50 photographs depicting body language clues
Contents
1. Introduction/Overview of the Process
2. Preparation and Strategy
3. Legal Aspects
4. Memory and False Confessions
5. Interpretation of Verbal and Physical Behavior
6. Causes of Denials
7. Interviewing
8. Why People Confess
9. Establishing Credibility/The Accusation
10. Reducing Resistance-Rationalizations
11. Denials
12. Obtaining the Admission
13. Development of the Admission
14. The Statement
15. Ending the Interview
16. Frequently Asked Questions
17. Telephone Interviewing
18. Specialized Interviews
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