Review
"...provides clear examples of effective methods in interrogating perpetrators and witnesses...What is most appealing is the direct and specific behaviors that the authors demonstrate in detecting lying..."
-CRIME AND JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL

Go to Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques to learn the basic psychology behind legal interrogation methods. - London Times


Review
"...provides clear examples of effective methods in interrogating perpetrators and witnesses...What is most appealing is the direct and specific behaviors that the authors demonstrate in detecting lying..."
-CRIME AND JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL


Book Description
Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques presents a practical, straightforward method for interviewing witnesses and victims, interrogating suspects, and accurately identifying them as truthful or untruthful. Instead of relying on intuition or a "gut feeling," interviewers will learn how to utilize four types of questions and apply accurate assessments of nonverbal behavior and verbal clues. They will also learn how to quantify their observations and numerically assess the truthfulness of each suspect, to minimize subjectivity.

Readers will also learn how to use the authors' Integrated Interrogation Technique, a 10-point, highly successful approach to obtaining court upheld confessions. The advantages and disadvantages of recording an interview or interrogation are discussed in detail, as well as some of the current legal aspects of these processes.

Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques includes numerous illustrations and pictures to enhance the reader's understanding as well as model worksheets and forms including: Consent Forms, Forensic Assessment Interview Technique Form, Numerical Evaluation Form, Sample Confession, and a Pre-employment Security Booklet. Investigators will turn to this book again and again to help find the truth in each person they interview.

* Features the authors' 10 point Integrated Interrogation Technique - a highly successful approach to obtaining court upheld confessions
* Numerous illustrations and pictures enhance the reader's understanding
* Comes with model worksheets and forms including: Consent Forms, Forensic Assessment Interview Technique Form, Numerical Evaluation Form, Sample Confession and a Pre-employment Security Booklet.


Book Info
Presents a practical, straightforward method for interviewing witnesses and victims, interrogating suspects, and accurately identifying them as truthful or untruthful. Readers will also learn how to use the authors' Integrated Interrogation Technique, a 10-point, highly successful approach to obtaining court upheld confessions.


From the Back Cover
Criminal investigations are all about the search for truth -- from the first field interview by the officer on the street, to the interrogation of a suspect by a detective, to the questioning of a witness during trial. What really happened? Who committed the crime? Who is telling the truth? This book shows how to use interviewing and interrogation techniques to find the answers to these questions with a high degree of accuracy.

Law enforcement personnel spend a great deal of time asking questions, and an entire case can rest on how they interpret the answers, who they believe, and how they obtain a confession. Unfortunately, most of these individuals do not receive proper training to know how to get to the truth.

Effective Interviewing & Interrogation Techniques presents a practical, straightforward method for interviewing witnesses and victims, interrogating suspects, and accurately identifying them as truthful or untruthful. Instead of relying on intuition or a "gut feeling," interviewers will learn how to utilize four types of questions and apply accurate assessments of nonverbal behavior and verbal clues. They will also learn how to quantify their observations and numerically assess the truthfulness of each suspect, to minimize subjectivity.

Readers will also learn how to use the authors' Integrated Interrogation Technique, a 10-point, highly successful approach to obtaining court upheld confessions. The advantages and disadvantages of recording an interview or interrogation are discussed in detail, as well as some of the current legal aspects of these processes.

Effective Interviewing & Interrogation Techniques includes numerous illustrations and pictures to enhance the reader's understanding as well as model worksheets and forms including: Consent Forms, Forensic Assessment Interview Technique Form, Numerical Evaluation Form, Sample Confession, and a Pre-employment Security Booklet. Investigators will turn to this book again and again to help find the truth in each person they interview.


About the Author
Nathan J. Gordon is Director and founder of the Academy for Scientific Investigative Training, with 26 years of investigative, administrative and polygraph experience. He is a full member of the American Polygraph Association, American Society for Industrial Security, former President of the Pennsylvania Polygraph Examiners Association, and author of many articles in the fields of Polygraph, Security and Defensive Tactics for law enforcement. Mr. Gordon has trained polygraph examiners from around the world, and has lectured on interviewing and interrogation techniques for many government and law enforcement agencies across the United States. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Vidocq Society. William L. Fleisher is Assistant Director for the Academy for Scientific Investigative Training. He is a former Assistant Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Customs Service, with 28 years of investigative and administrative experience gained as a Philadelphia Police Corporal, Special Agent for the FBI, and Supervisory Special Agent for the U.S. Customs Service. Mr. Fleisher has lectured on Behavioral Symptom Analysis for many law enforcement and intelligence agencies across the United States and the Far East. He wrote the U.S. Customs Service's training manual, "Behavioral Symptom Analysis." In addition, Mr. Fleisher is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a full member of the American Polygraph Association, the Pennsylvania Polygraph Examiners Association, American Society for Industrial Security, Intelnet, Diplomate American College of Forensic Examiners, International Association for Forensic Hypnotists, and the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Fleisher is co-founder and first Commissioner of the Vidocq Society, an international organization of forensic experts.

ANNOTATION

Audience: Police officers, detectives, investigators, customs officers, and other law enforcement officials; intelligence professionals; polygraph specialists; forensic science educators, attorneys, journalists, and psychologists.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques presents a practical, straightforward method for interviewing witnesses and victims, interrogating suspects, and accurately identifying them as truthful or untruthful. Instead of relying on intuition or a "gut feeling," interviewers will learn how to utilize four types of questions and apply accurate assessments of nonverbal behavior and verbal clues. They will also learn how to quantify their observations and numerically assess the truthfulness of each suspect, to minimize subjectivity.

Readers will also learn how to use the authors' Integrated Interrogation Technique, a 10-point, highly successful approach to obtaining court upheld confessions. The advantages and disadvantages of recording an interview or interrogation are discussed in detail, as well as some of the current legal aspects of these processes.

Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques includes numerous illustrations and pictures to enhance the reader's understanding as well as model worksheets and forms including: Consent Forms, Forensic Assessment Interview Technique Form, Numerical Evaluation Form, Sample Confession, and a Pre-employment Security Booklet. Investigators will turn to this book again and again to help find the truth in each person they interview.

* Features the authors' 10 point Integrated Interrogation Technique - a highly successful approach to obtaining court upheld confessions
* Numerous illustrations and pictures enhance the reader's understanding
* Comes with model worksheets and forms including: Consent Forms, Forensic Assessment Interview Technique Form, Numerical Evaluation Form,Sample Confession and a Pre-employment Security Booklet.

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