Forensic Interviewing: For Law Enforcement

Forensic Interviewing for Law Enforcement is a practical overview of interrogation law before guiding the reader into various legitimate strategies that aid in obtaining confessions.

Included also is information covering such topics as understanding words used by criminals that aid in identifying them for later interrogation.

There is a chapter devoted to analyzing verbal responses to identify the innocent and identifying those who provide verbal responses indicative of someone needing more investigation.

The use of a psychological questionnaire is laid out completely for an investigator dealing with multiple suspects in a crime.

Finally, there is a comprehensive chapter on the polygraph to inform the investigator what he can gain from its use and, importantly, how to utilize a polygraph examination to reach a successful case resolution.