Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques believably answers the question, How do you know when someone is lying? It also provides a guide for interviewing probable suspects and interrogating likely perpetrators on techniques and tradecraft.
This book covers topics about searching for truth and revealing lies. It presents forensic assessments based on psychophysiology, and assessments on the basis of non-verbal behavior. The book also covers interview and interrogation preparation, as well as question formulation. It discusses the Morgan Interview Theme Technique or MITT, and the Forensic Assessment Interview or FAINT. The book addresses techniques for interviewing children and the mentally challenged, and offers information about pre-employment interviews. It also explains how to understand aggressive behavior and how to deal with angry people. The 4th Edition adds several Chapters on how to ascertain maximum information from victims and witnesses. The book concludes by presenting future methods for searching for the truth.
Law enforcement and security professionals, as well as prosecutors, criminal defense lawyers, and civil litigators will find this book invaluable.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. About the Authors - p. ix 6. Foreword - p. xi 7. Preface - p. xiii 8. Acknowledgments - p. xv 9. Chapter 1: The Search for Truth - p. xv 10. Chapter 2: Truth and Lies - p. 9 11. Chapter 3: Psychophysiological Basis of the Forensic Assessment - p. 15 12. Chapter 4: Preparation for the Interview/Interrogation - p. 26 13. Chapter 5: Morgan Interview Theme Technique (MITT) - p. 35 14. Chapter 6: Forensic Statement Analysis - p. 57 15. Chapter 7: Question Formulation: Irrelevant, Relevant, and Comparison Questions - p. 86 16. Chapter 8: Projective Analysis of Unwitting Verbal Cues - p. 93 17. Chapter 9: Nonverbal Behavioral Assessment - p. 102 18. Chapter 10: Traditional Scoring of the FAINT Interview - p. 134 19. Chapter 11: The Validation of the Forensic Assessment Interview (FAINT) - p. 159 20. Chapter 12: Interviewing Witnesses and Victims - p. 205 21. Chapter 13: Hypnosis - p. 211 22. Chapter 14: Cognitive Interviewing - p. 220 23. Chapter 15: Interviewing Children and the Mentally Challenged - p. 226 24. Chapter 16: Report Writing - p. 235 25. Chapter 17: Torture and False Confessions: The Ethics of a Post-9/11 World - p. 239 26. Chapter 18: Pre-employment Interviewing - p. 250 27. Chapter 19: Passenger Screening With Verbal and Nonverbal Cues - p. 256 28. Chapter 20: Legal Considerations - p. 263 29. Chapter 21: The Integrated Interrogation Technique - p. 270 30. Chapter 22: Statements, Recordings, and Videos - p. 293 31. Chapter 23: Understanding Aggressive Behavior and Dealing With Angry People - p. 298 32. Chapter 24: The Instrumental Detection of Deception Polygraph - p. 310 33. Chapter 25: The Search for Truth: Future Instrumentation - p. 325 34. Appendix A - p. 337 35. Appendix B - p. 345 36. Appendix C - p. 353 37. Appendix D - p. 375 38. Index - p. 383
Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques believably answers the question, How do you know when someone is lying? It also provides a guide for interviewing probable suspects and interrogating likely perpetrators on techniques and tradecraft.
This book covers topics about searching for truth and revealing lies. It presents forensic assessments based on psychophysiology, and assessments on the basis of non-verbal behavior. The book also covers interview and interrogation preparation, as well as question formulation. It discusses the Morgan Interview Theme Technique or MITT, and the Forensic Assessment Interview or FAINT. The book addresses techniques for interviewing children and the mentally challenged, and offers information about pre-employment interviews. It also explains how to understand aggressive behavior and how to deal with angry people. The 4th Edition adds several Chapters on how to ascertain maximum information from victims and witnesses. The book concludes by presenting future methods for searching for the truth.
Law enforcement and security professionals, as well as prosecutors, criminal defense lawyers, and civil litigators will find this book invaluable.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. About the Authors - p. ix 6. Foreword - p. xi 7. Preface - p. xiii 8. Acknowledgments - p. xv 9. Chapter 1: The Search for Truth - p. xv 10. Chapter 2: Truth and Lies - p. 9 11. Chapter 3: Psychophysiological Basis of the Forensic Assessment - p. 15 12. Chapter 4: Preparation for the Interview/Interrogation - p. 26 13. Chapter 5: Morgan Interview Theme Technique (MITT) - p. 35 14. Chapter 6: Forensic Statement Analysis - p. 57 15. Chapter 7: Question Formulation: Irrelevant, Relevant, and Comparison Questions - p. 86 16. Chapter 8: Projective Analysis of Unwitting Verbal Cues - p. 93 17. Chapter 9: Nonverbal Behavioral Assessment - p. 102 18. Chapter 10: Traditional Scoring of the FAINT Interview - p. 134 19. Chapter 11: The Validation of the Forensic Assessment Interview (FAINT) - p. 159 20. Chapter 12: Interviewing Witnesses and Victims - p. 205 21. Chapter 13: Hypnosis - p. 211 22. Chapter 14: Cognitive Interviewing - p. 220 23. Chapter 15: Interviewing Children and the Mentally Challenged - p. 226 24. Chapter 16: Report Writing - p. 235 25. Chapter 17: Torture and False Confessions: The Ethics of a Post-9/11 World - p. 239 26. Chapter 18: Pre-employment Interviewing - p. 250 27. Chapter 19: Passenger Screening With Verbal and Nonverbal Cues - p. 256 28. Chapter 20: Legal Considerations - p. 263 29. Chapter 21: The Integrated Interrogation Technique - p. 270 30. Chapter 22: Statements, Recordings, and Videos - p. 293 31. Chapter 23: Understanding Aggressive Behavior and Dealing With Angry People - p. 298 32. Chapter 24: The Instrumental Detection of Deception Polygraph - p. 310 33. Chapter 25: The Search for Truth: Future Instrumentation - p. 325 34. Appendix A - p. 337 35. Appendix B - p. 345 36. Appendix C - p. 353 37. Appendix D - p. 375 38. Index - p. 383
