What makes a person confess to a crime he did not commit? Was he coerced? Is he trying to protect someone else? Interrogation has come under attack as opponents focus on false confessions. However, most cases are still resolved by confession, not forensic evidence. Among the new topics covered in the Second Edition of this bestselling book, Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation focuses on why false confessions exist and how to avoid them.

Written by two experts who have conducted over 15,000 interviews and interrogations from theft to homicide, this book expands on the valuable...

Reviewed and recognized as the most authoritative source in the field, this book describes the methods used worldwide to recover and identify footwear impressions from the scene of a crime.

In this new edition, everything, including the original twelve chapters, bibliography, appendix, etc., has been clarified, updated and expanded. This edition includes updated and new information on recovery procedures and materials such as lifting, photography and casting; chemical enhancement; updated information about footwear manufacturing; footwear sizing; and known impression techniques and...

How do you interpret a person's behavior during their interview? Some people say it's an innate quality that can't be taught. But anyone who's read Stan Walters' Principles of Kinesic Interview and Interrogation knows that is FALSE. The overwhelming success of the first edition and the numerous success stories credited to the book prove that the art of kinesic interview, or behavioral analysis, is indeed learnable, and Walters shows you how to master it.

Why are some interviewers more successful than others? Why do certain techniques work only part of the time? Why did the subject...

The felonious activities of prisoners reach out into society every day. These inmates run lucrative drug operations, hire contract murders, and commit a multitude of criminal offenses from inside the walls of our prisons. This book gives advice on how to handle crime in a community in which 100 per cent of the population are convicted felons.

The Second Edition of this bestseller combines directions for the old tried and true methods of photographic documentation (cameras, films, lighting sources) with analyses of the latest methods used in the practice (video, thermography, digital imaging). Specifically, Redsicker discusses the "how-to" of basic photography, shows the essentials of videography, and offers the fundamentals of aerial, underwater, and surveillance photography as they relate to the presentation of evidence in court. Redsicker presents this information in a practical, step-by-step fashion that is bound to enable...

A thumb print left at the scene of a grisly murder. Fingerprints taken from a getaway car used in a bank robbery. A palm print recovered from the shattered glass door of a burglarized home. Indeed, where crimes are committed, careless perpetrators will invariably leave behind the critical pieces of evidence most likely in the form of fingerprints needed to catch and convict them. But the science of fingerprint identification isn t always as cut and dry as detective novels and movies make it out to be.

Quantitative-Qualitative Friction Ridge Analysis, a new book in the ongoing...

This series has been designed to provide contemporary, comprehensive, and pragmatic information to the practioner involved in criminal and forensic investigations by authors who are nationally recognized experts in their respective fields.

A discussion of developments in the manifestation of problems involved in the investigation and assessment of sexual cases, which offers advice on dealing with these issues. Although many of the difficulties involved in investigation and assessment of sexual abuse allegations have remained unchanged since the first edition of this work, the manner in which investigations are conducted must adapt to these developments. Intended for investigators, attorneys, clinicians, court evaluators, medical practitioners and anyone involved in the litigation of child sexual abuse, this work focuses on...

This volume presents the basic principles and advanced applied techniques for conducting a thorough fire and arson investigation. This second edition has rewritten chapters on determining origin and cause, eliminating accidental fire causes, investigating fatal fires and vehicular fires and documenting the fire/crime scene. The importance of evidence preservation and analysis in civil litigation of liability and product defects is focused upon. Case studies are used in the text to illustrate concepts explained in the text and includes information about eliminating accidental causes of fire...

Investigating Computer Crime presents practical methods for gathering electronic evidence and dealing with crimes involving computers. Based on material gathered from hundreds of investigators all over the world, it contains an incredible amount of practical, directly applicable information. It follows a step-by-step approach to the investigation, seizure, and evaluation of computer evidence. The material in the book has been used at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the Canadian Police College for teaching computer classes in white collar crime and sex crime investigations and...