Human Relations and Advanced Investigative Techniques

Legal knowledge tells an officer what they're allowed to do. It says nothing about how to get the truth out of someone who doesn't want to give it up.
Human Relations and Advanced Investigative Techniques is the professional core of the American Street Law series - and the most distinctive book on the market for working investigators. Written by a retired police chief and FBI National Academy graduate, it combines humanistic policing philosophy, interview science, interrogation strategy, and the psychology of confession in a single practitioner volume grounded entirely in real cases.
Inside, you'll master:

• Why human relations - not legal authority - is an investigator's primary tool, and how economic culture shapes the way people communicate with police
• A complete, field-ready interview protocol: planning, rapport, questioning sequence, and adaptations for witnesses, victims, and suspects
• The nonverbal communication skills that separate a credibility assessment from a guess - and why even skilled investigators can't reliably detect deception
• The psychology of why suspects confess, including all eleven neutralization techniques offenders use to rationalize what they've done - and how investigators recognize and work with each one
• How to build a case file that survives contact with a prosecutor, defense counsel, and cross-examination - from the first interview to the witness stand