Full Description
Designed for visually oriented learners, this DVD is an illustrative record of many of the techniques, tactics, and strategies utilized during police interviews and interrogations. The videos presented provide officers with concrete images of the best way to conduct these procedures, enabling them to visualize themselves speaking with individuals in a similar manner. Police officers familiar with common interview scenarios play the roles of victims, witnesses, and subjects, ensuring a realistic and practical learning experience. The DVD is an ideal complement to the author's book Behavior, Truth, and Deception.
Contents
Disc OneWelcomeOur Critics: Dim View of Police Interviewing and Interrogating Hey, I Want an Attorney: Legal SuggestionsThe Natural: Interviewer's Positive TraitsThe Less Fortunate: Interviewer's Building Blocks for ImprovementHome of Interviewing: The Interview SettingIf Only I Had a Dollar: Analyzing Oral StatementsDisc TwoKnow Where You Are Going: Planning an InterviewWho Controls Wins: Controlling the InterviewMimes Speaking Loudly: Reading and Interpreting Non-Verbal GesturesDisc ThreeOne From Column A, etc.: Question Choices for Interviewing Victims, Witnesses and SuspectsQuestion Answered or Avoided? Subject Answering Pattern The Spin Starts Here: Themes and RPM'sIt's Not Personal: Engineering a ConfrontationDisc FourOne-Sided Conversation to One-Sided Challenge: Interviewing and Interrogating Yes! They Do Happen: False ConfessionsDisc FiveCareful, They Are Fragile: Avoiding False ConfessionsWhy'd You Tell? Why People ConfessDisc SixFeather or Sledgehammer and Other Choices: General TacticsHitting the Bulls-Eye: The Targeted Subject Interview Appendix - Reading Material