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

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.

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.