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This text looks at the various strategies and techniques of interviewing and interrogating witnesses, victims and suspects. Topics include: types of interviews, crime scene considerations, deciding to interrogate, The Right To Remain Silent, interrogation techniques, interrogation props, defensive measures, recording the confession, etc. Gilbert takes a unique offender-based strategy that focuses on the offender and the witness type in order to create a more successful process. Rather than strictly examining the practicalities, including interrogation setting, demeanor or plan, Gilbert focuses on the why of offender confessions and witness communication.

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Steve Gilbert is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Criminal Investigations Program at SUNY-Canton. He has a Masters Degree in Forensic Science from George Washington University. Gilbert was special agent for the US Army Criminal Investigation Command (1978-1995); Forensic Administrator for Sedgwick County Regional Forensic Science Center; instructor for FEMA's Mass Fatality Incident Response Course; forensic science/criminal justice instructor for the Army. He teaches courses on criminal investigations, introduction to criminal justice, fingerprints and impressions, communications for law enforcement, interviews and interrogations, survey of forensic sciences, medicolegal investigation of death, family victimization, crime causation, crime prevention and sex crimes. Gilbert has conducted research and published articles on forensic hypnosis, forensic analyses of cutting instruments, contrariant serial killers, Meniere's Syndrome, spatial disorientation deaths, Coup and Contrecoup head injuries and the Bertillon Anthropometric System.

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