Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation (Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations) - Hardcover

Zulawski, David E.; Wicklander, Douglas E.; Sturman, Shane G.; Hoover, L. Wayne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849395208 ISBN 13: 9780849395208

Publisher: CRC Press, 1992

Synopsis

Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation provides both law enforcement and private sector investigators with a methodically structured guide on how to deal effectively with the complex problems of interviewing and interrogating victims, witnesses, and suspects.

Written by two experts who have conducted over 15,000 interviews and interrogations from theft to homicide, this book covers the entire sequence of events that occur during the interview and interrogation process. Zulawski and Wicklander provide a realistic building block approach that allows the interviewer to move from a preliminary accusation to an ultimate confession by applying practical rules to the process. The authors present their method in a cookbook fashion, giving readers the flexibility to select a number of different paths to proceed in an interrogation of a suspect.

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Review

Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation, Second Edition is one of the best. This second edition, written by two of the best-known experts in the field, culls today's best techniques. In straightforward yet engaging prose, the authors cover the entire interviewing and interrogation process, from the simplest to the most advanced techniques. an excellent book. It deserves to be in the hands of public and private sector professionals alike, as well as on the desks of students interested in either of those fields.

Synopsis

This text provides both law enforcement and private sector investigators with a methodically structured guide on how to deal effectively with the complex problems of interviewing and interrogating victims, witnesses and suspects. It covers the entire sequence of events that occur during the interview and interrogation process. The book presents the development of behavioural models (body language and attitudes) of truthful and untruthful suspects. It includes the development of a methodology to consistently solicit confessions from guilty suspects and also provides an application of behavioural clues to the interrogation process to give direction to the interrogator. The authors also discusses the causes of a denial.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0849395208
• ISBN 13: 9780849395208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368