Leadership Development

Smart Talk: Contemporary Interviewing and Interrogation

Every profession has specific philosophies and approaches to effective communication; Smart Talk: Contemporary Interviewing and Interrogation, was designed to pinpoint those most useful to the criminal justice profession. Smart Talk covers both interviewing and interrogation techniques– along with their legal considerations–in a single volume. Exploring multiple approaches to interviewing, it clearly identifies communication techniques that improve the quality and quantity of information gathered from victims, witnesses, and perpetrators. In text exercises, landmark cases and field accounts bring a real world application to the book and reinforce how strong communication skills lead to more successful case investigations.

PART I: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR SUCCESS

1. Interrogation and Interviewing for Criminal Justice

2. The Interview Process

3. Purposeful Interviewing and Processes

PART II: INTERVIEWING METHODS

4. Traditional, Structured, and Inferential Interviewing with Statement Analysis Techniques

5. The Forensic Hypnosis and Cognitive Interviewing

6. Behavioral Interviewing Techniques

PART III: INTERVIEWING SPECIAL POPULATIONS

7. Interviewing Children

8. Interviewing Elders

9. Interviewing Persons with Disabilities or Mental Illness