The content of the Guide will enable the reader to expand his or her knowledge and increase skill at interviewing and interrogating. It is written with no attempt to excel in literary style, but rather to inform, challenge, and inspire. Some readers will become acquainted with techniques unfamiliar to them, while other readers will be refreshed and motivated to enhance their present level of competency. What follows is written for law enforcement personnel who want to improve their skill in helping victims and witnesses of crimes or accidents to recall details of their experiences, and to assist personnel in improving their ability to interrogate successfully individuals who do not want to disclose something of investigative value. Several formulated methods are presented, as well as general principles designed to facilitate success. Research, viewpoints, and ideas to enhance achievement are stated. The Guide also provides information from professional fields that is presented with the intention of increasing the breath of the investigator's knowledge and effectiveness.
This manual provides guiding principles to effective interviewing, with specific techniques to be used and others to be avoided.
They must also recognize the process by which those interviewed can deceive -- and how deception can be detected. This book demonstrates to interviewers the fundamentals of effective inquiry. Rabon has divided the text into six chapters.
This theory is the single most important component of interviewing and is crucial to an investigator's ability to correctly interpret human behavior. This book examines investigative interviewing in a very complete fashion.
Easy-to-read and practical, this text uses a survey approach and numerous examples to illustrate interviewing skills and techniques.
All chapters of the 2nd edition have been updated with the most current methods of interviewing and interrogation, including new uses of technology and cutting-edge communication styles.
By reading this book, you will learn how to obtain confessions not by asking the suspect questions, but by convincing a suspect to confess by using persuasive interrogational arguments.