This new edition continues to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive information on interviewing subjects. It contains 'how to' guides, practical applications, and example scenarios for students to understand and learn the best way to interview a wide range of people.

Fundamentals 1: The Conversation Management Approach to Investigative Interviewing 2: How Conversation Works 3: Memory 4: Processing Information 5: Coversing Mindfully: Creating Trust to Maximize Disclosure 6: Asking Questions 7: Managing the Individual's Response Applications 8: Before the Interview: Key Assessments, Decision-Making, and Actions 9: Interviewing the Witness: Key Considerations 10: Interveiwing the Suspect: Key Considerations 11: Interviewing the Suspect Who Answers Questions 12: Interviewing the Suspect Who Exercises the Right to Remain Silent Without Producing a Prepared Statement 13: Interviewing the Suspect Who Produces a Defence Statement 14: Extending the Mainstream 15: Evaluation: The Last Piece of the Jigsaw Reference Section

Unique practical text providing 'how-to' guidance on what to do prior to, during, and following investigative interviews, explaining the Conversation Management and PEACE approaches Provides investigative interviewing practitioners with a comprehensive tool-kit to help them skilfully assess and monitor the interviewee, analyse fine-grain detail in statements, and operate ethically Includes a variety of practical features including checklists, best practice guidance, and handy dialogue boxes Covers all the key issues involved in interviewing vulnerable and non-vulnerable witnesses, suspects who exercise the right to silence, suspects who answer questions, suspects who produce a written defence statement, and individuals in special circumstances

Professor Eric Shepherd is a chartered scientist, forensic psychologist, counselling psychologist, and psychotherapist. A former intelligence officer specialising in interrogation, resistance to interrogation, information analysis and foreign language duties, he has held a wide range of clinical and academic appointments. He has worked within and outside the UK with the police, the legal profession, government departments, and with the private sector. He has given expert witness testimony in cases before lower and appeal courts within and outside UK, the ICC, and the ICJ. A member of the UK Home Office Working Party on Investigative Interviewing, the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice invited him to give evidence on police interviewing practice. Dr Andy Griffiths is a former UK police Detective Superintendent who spent his career investigating serious crime and who also led homicide, organized crime, and intelligence departments as a senior officer. His PhD evaluating the effectiveness of specialized interview training was sponsored by the national police college, and he has been training and advising on investigative interviewing at both tactical and strategic levels for over 20 years in numerous countries across the world. He now divides his time between public and private sector consultancy and training, alongside academic work as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth and an affiliated scholar with New York University's Asia Law Institute.

Unique practical text providing 'how-to' guidance on what to do prior to, during, and following investigative interviews, explaining the Conversation Management and PEACE approaches Provides investigative interviewing practitioners with a comprehensive tool-kit to help them skilfully assess and monitor the interviewee, analyse fine-grain detail in statements, and operate ethically Includes a variety of practical features including checklists, best practice guidance, and handy dialogue boxes Covers all the key issues involved in interviewing vulnerable and non-vulnerable witnesses, suspects who exercise the right to silence, suspects who answer questions, suspects who produce a written defence statement, and individuals in special circumstances