Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques

This practical manual describes the Forensic Assessment Interview Technique and Integrated Interrogation Technique (IIT) developed at the Academy for Scientific Investigative Training and used by forensic practitioners and investigators to detect truth or deceptive behavior. The 3rd edition will expand chapters on Torture; Assessing the Interview; Statement Analysis and the Morgan Interview Thematic Techniques and Interrogation. This edition will also include an online workbook as a supplement to the book, which will provide the reader with practical exercises to enhance the skills acquired from reading the book.

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 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, IIT, and MITT in one source
Enables the interviewer to obtain a confession that can stand up in court
Includes an online workbook with practical exercises to assist the reader

1. The Search for Truth

2. Truth and Lies

3. Psychophysiological Basis of the Forensic Assessment

4. Preparation for the Interview / Interrogation

5. Morgan Interview Theme Technique (MITT)

6. Forensic Statement Analysis

7. Question Formulation: Irrelevant, Relevant, and Comparison Questions

8. Projective Analysis of Unwitting Verbal Cues

9. Nonverbal Behavioral Assessment

10. Traditional Scoring of the FAINT Interview

11. The Validation of the Forensic Assessment Interview (FAINT)

12. Interviewing Children and the Mentally Challenged

13. Report Writing

14. Torture and False Confessions: The Ethics of a Post 9/11 World

15. Pre-Employment Interviewing

16. Passenger Screening with Verbal and Nonverbal Cues

17. Legal Considerations

18. The Integrated Interrogation Technique

19. Statements, Recordings and Videos

20. The Instrumental Detection of Deception: Polygraph

21. The Search for Truth: Future Instrumentation

Appendix A Forensic Assessment Interview

Appendix B Weighted FAINT Form

Appendix C Pre-Employment Booklet

Appendix D Questionnaire