Effective interviewing and interrogation techniques / Nathan J. Gordon and William L. Fleisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index.

The search for truth -- Truth and lies -- Psycho-physiological basis of the forensic assessment -- Preparation for the interview/interrogation -- Morgan Thematic Apperception Testing Technique (MITT) and Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN) -- Question formulation: irrelevant, relevant, and comparison questions -- Projective analysis of unwitting verbal cues -- Nonverbal behavioral assessment -- Traditional scoring of the faint interview -- The validation of the Forensic Assessment Interview Technique (FAINT) -- Interviewing children and the mentally challenged -- Torture and false confessions: the ethics of a post 9/11 world -- Pre-employment interviewing -- Legal considerations -- Recordings, videos, and statements -- The integrated interrogation technique -- New technologies in the search for truth -- Appendix A: Forensic assessment interview -- Appendix B: Weighted FAINT form -- Appendix C: Pre-employment booklet.

Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques, Second Edition, is completely revised and updated building on the previous edition's groundbreaking search for truth in criminal and non-criminal investigations. The Second Edition contains all the information an investigator needs to know about obtaining answers from a witness, a victim, or a suspect and how to interpret these answers with the utmost accuracy. Highly illustrated, the chapters include several model worksheets and documents as well as complete instructions for using the authors' Integrated Interrogation Technique, a 10-poin.

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