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What is Investigative Interviewing?

Part 3 of the 7-part series

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    What is Investigative Interviewing?

    Part 3 of 7 of the ‘What is Investigative Psychology?’ series


    What is Investigative Interviewing?


    This video covers questions such as: What is investigative interviewing? How to get the truth out of a suspect? How do you interview best? How to interview a rape suspect? How to interview a rape victim?


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    Books that are relevant to this topic for further reading if you’re interested:


    'Investigative Psychology - Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action' by David Canter & Donna Youngs


    Forensic Psychology: A very short introduction’ by David Canter


    Forensic Psychology for Dummies’ by David Canter


    Principles of Geographical Offender Profiling’ by David Canter & Donna Youngs


    Mapping Murder – Secrets of Geographic Profiling’ by David Canter


    Criminal Shadows – Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer’ by David Canter


    Criminal Psychology’ by David Canter


    The Forensic Psychologist’s Casebook: Psychological Profiling and Criminal Investigation’ by Laurence Alison


    The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions’ by Gisli Gudjonsson


    Music: ‘Unused’ by Susan Cay; ‘White Hats’ by Wayne Jones; ‘Shabnan’s enlightenment’ by James Hesford;


    Subtitling by Laura Thöling



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