Interviewing: Theories, Techniques and Practices (5th Edition)

Using a systematic training approach based on scientifically validated research, the book combines “how-to” guidelines and “hands-on” practice to expose readers to key interviewing concepts and basic interrogation skills. Focusing on basic interviewing concepts and skills for criminal justice professionals, this book provides coverage of basic interviewing, interrogation and counseling skills & strategies. For people that plan to work in the criminal justice system.

This comprehensive text on interviewing presents the theories, techniques, and practices based on a systematic theoretical training model. Drawing on over thirty years of classroom and in-services training experience, the author has incorporated the first and second waves of interviewing research into a text that can be used for classroom instruction or as an interviewing or training manual or curriculum model. The structural foundations for the book are the fields of communication/ human relations training, police psychology, counseling psychology, forensic psychology, and, multicultural training. The approach of the book is from an evidence-based perspective. Some of the salient features of the text are:

• Interviewing and Interrogation
• Structured Interviews
• Art or Science?
• Interviewing and Interrogation Research
• Detecting Deception
• Non-Verbal Communication
• Legal and Ethical Standards
• Multicultural Interviewing
• Interviewing Offenders
• A Basic Skills Model
• Interviewing Theory
• Confrontation and Assertion Skills
• Future Trends in Interviewing

Students or trainees progress through a seven-stage process model of skill development. Skill acquisition can be enhanced by written exercises, interview challenges, self-evaluation, and self-assessments, which are included with each chapter.