Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques

✍ Scribed by Nathan J. Gordon, William L. Fleisher

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 408
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

• The only book to address FAINT, Integrated Interrogation Technique, Forensic Statement Analysis and MITT in one source
• Several Chapters on ascertaining information from witnesses and victims
• Enables the interviewer to obtain a confession that can stand up in court

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques
Copyright
Contents
About the Authors
Foreword
Preface
A Note About Gender
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Search for Truth
Summary
References
Chapter 2: Truth and Lies
Summary
Reference
Chapter 3: Psychophysiological Basis of the Forensic Assessment
Summary
References
Chapter 4: Preparation for the Interview/Interrogation
Summary
Reference
Chapter 5: Morgan Interview Theme Technique ( MITT)
MITT Suspect 1
MITT Suspect 2
MITT Suspect 3
MITT Suspect 4
Summary
Reference
Chapter 6: Forensic Statement Analysis
General Characteristics:
Peculiarities of Content:
Offense-Specific Elements:
Summary
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 7: Question Formulation: Irrelevant, Relevant, and Comparison Questions
Irrelevant Questions
Relevant Questions
Comparison Questions
Summary
References
Chapter 8: Projective Analysis of Unwitting Verbal Cues
Summary
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 9: Nonverbal Behavioral Assessment
General Posture
Head and Face
Eyes
Mouth
Nose
Arms and Hands
Feet and Legs
Grooming Behaviors
Thinking gestures
Involuntary Biological Signs
Paralinguistic Behaviors
Neurolinguistics
Neurolinguistic Eye Cues
Nonverbal Behavior During the Interrogation; Surrender
Summary
References
Chapter 10: Traditional Scoring of the FAINT Interview
Case Study 1
Suspect A
Case Study 2
Suspect B
Suspect A
Suspect B
Case Study 3: Multiple Suspects
Summary
Chapter 11: The Validation of the Forensic Assessment Interview (FAINT)
Case Study 1
Analysis of Case Study 1
Case Study 2
Analysis of Case Study 2
Case Study 3
Analysis of Case Study 3
Case Study 4
Analysis of Case Study 4
Case Study 5
Analysis of Case Study 5
Case Study 6
Analysis of Case Study 6
Summary
References
Further Reading
Chapter 12: Interviewing Witnesses and Victims
Planning and Preparation
Engage and Explain
Account
Challenge, Clarify, and Closure
Evaluation
Summary
Reference
Chapter 13: Hypnosis
Summary
References
Chapter 14: Cognitive Interviewing
Summary
References
Chapter 15: Interviewing Children and the Mentally Challenged
Summary
References
Chapter 16: Report Writing
Summary
Chapter 17: Torture and False Confessions: The Ethics of a Post-9/11 World
Summary
References
Chapter 18: Pre-employment Interviewing
Summary
References
Chapter 19: Passenger Screening With Verbal and Nonverbal Cues
Summary
References
Chapter 20: Legal Considerations
Summary
References
Chapter 21: The Integrated Interrogation Technique
Make a Forceful Assertion That the Suspect Is Guilty
Do Not Allow the Suspect to Deny the Act
Offer a Series of Possibilities of How and Why This May Have Happened
Undermine the Person’s Self-Confidence
Offer Persuasive Arguments for Telling the Truth
Offer Solutions, Where Possible, to Alleviate the Person’s Fear
Compliment the Person
Use Alternative and Leading Questions
Watch for the “Buy” Signs
Move in Close and Press for the Confession
Summary
Reference
Further Reading
Chapter 22: Statements, Recordings, and Videos
Summary
References
Chapter 23: Understanding Aggressive Behavior and Dealing With Angry People
Intention Movements of Attack
Vacuum Gestures
Redirection Gestures
Preattack Warning Signs
Summary
Chapter 24: The Instrumental Detection of Deception Polygraph
IZCT Single Issue
IZCT multifaceted test
Summary
References
Chapter 25: The Search for Truth: Future Instrumentation
Summary
Further Reading
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Index
Back Cover