Of the three critical phases of the interview process: questioning, detecting deception and gaining compliance, the latter is the most problematic and enigmatic. How to influence the behavior of another while ensuring that the compliance is voluntary is the primary underlying factor. Within this text, the dynamics that must happen to motivate the individual toward compliance are addressed through an in-depth analysis of an 18 minute segment of an 80 minute interview. What happens in that brief period to take the individual from total denial to full compliance? Behavior motivating examples from everyday life are illustrated in the examination of the interview/interrogation to enhance the learning process. Discussion questions, along with individual and group exercises, are provided to address a variety of content delivery formats. Written examinations are included at the end of each chapter to reinforce the information addressed.
This manual provides guiding principles to effective interviewing, with specific techniques to be used and others to be avoided.
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.
The content of the Guide will enable the reader to expand his or her knowledge and increase skill at interviewing and interrogating.
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.