Why do people lie?
Do gender and personality differences affect how people lie?
How can lies be detected?

Detecting Lies and Deceit provides the most comprehensive review of deception to date. This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of deception research and discusses the working and efficacy of the most commonly used lie detection tools, including:

• Behaviour Analysis Interview
• Statement Validity Assessment
• Reality Monitoring
• Scientific Content Analysis
• Several different polygraph...

Why do people lie?
Do gender and personality differences affect how people lie?
How can lies be detected?

Detecting Lies and Deceit provides the most comprehensive review of deception to date. This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of deception research and discusses the working and efficacy of the most commonly used lie detection tools, including:

• Behaviour Analysis Interview
• Statement Validity Assessment
• Reality Monitoring
• Scientific Content Analysis
• Several different polygraph...

A comprehensive survey of the theory, research and forensic implications related to suggestibility in legal contexts that includes the latest research.

• Provides a useful digest for academics and a trusted text for students of forensic and applied psychology
• A vital resource for legal practitioners who need to familiarize themselves with the subject
• Includes practical suggestions for minimizing witness suggestibility in interviews
• Features topics that focus on suggestibility at each stage - from witnessing a crime through to trial

A comprehensive survey of the theory, research and forensic implications related to suggestibility in legal contexts that includes the latest research.

• Provides a useful digest for academics and a trusted text for students of forensic and applied psychology
• A vital resource for legal practitioners who need to familiarize themselves with the subject
• Includes practical suggestions for minimizing witness suggestibility in interviews
• Features topics that focus on suggestibility at each stage - from witnessing a crime through to trial

Detecting Deception offers a state-of-the-art guide to the detection of deception with a focus on the ways in which new cognitive psychology-based approaches can improve practice and results in the field.

• Includes comprehensive coverage of the latest scientific developments in the detection of deception and their implications for real-world practice
• Examines current challenges in the field - such as counter-interrogation strategies, lying networks, cross-cultural deception, and discriminating between true and false intentions
• Reveals a host of new...

Forensic Facial Identification discusses the latest scientific and technical advancements in the field and their implications for practice in psychology, criminology, and law.

• Provides an up-to-date set of best practices for forensic facial identification
• Reviews current procedures for different facial identification methods and their reliability
• Covers eyewitness testimony, line-ups, facial composites, anthropological face reconstructions, CCTV images, and computerized automatic face recognition systems
• Incorporates case studies...

Communication in Forensic Contexts provides in-depth coverage of the complex area of communication in forensic situations. Drawing on expertise from forensic psychology, linguistics and law enforcement worldwide, the text bridges the gap between these fields in a definitive guide to best practice.

• Offers best practice for understanding and improving communication in forensic contexts, including interviewing of victims, witnesses and suspects, discourse in courtrooms, and discourse via interpreters
• Bridges the knowledge gaps between forensic psychology,...

Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the development of the science behind the psychology of false confessions Four decades ago, little was known or understood about false confessions and the reasons behind them. So much has changed since then due in part to the diligent work done by Gisli H. Gudjonsson.