Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1419313 in Books
• Published on: 1995-12-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 158 pages

Customer Reviews

Better than what you get in the academy
Joseph has been there and done that. The book is more useful than most of the material you get in training because it comes from an officer who has learned through trail and error what works. As a guy who spent 29 years in law enforcement interviewing people, I highly recommend this book.

Is your boyfriend lying?
This book is not only a police guide but also a great window into human psychology and behavior. With chapters such as how to put the suspect at ease during an interrogation, oh, excuse me "interview" and how to read nonverbal cues to see if a suspect is lying, it makes me want to put at least one of my ex-es in a room with his back to the door and see if he taps his feet or averts his eyes when I ask where he was on a particular evening.

The author is extremely astute about human nature and uses personal experience and a down to earth writing style that makes this book fun and easy to understand. (O.K. he likes to CAP words a lot, but it ends up being CHARMING instead of annoying.)

GREAT, GREAT BOOK!
I am a police officer in northern Ohio. I was always fustrated doing interviews, I knew I had the right guy, but just didn't know how to get them to tell me they did it. Till I read this book. This book helped me ten-fold with my interviews. This book will not make you an expert interviewer over night. Only time and experience doing interviews will do that. But this book steered me in the right direction. After reading this book my interview techique got alot better and I started getting alot more confessions. The author tells it in plain english and it's easy to understand. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to be a better interviewer.