Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-252) and index.
Contents:
1. The scientific method : fact finding in investigations -- 2. Cognitive skills : perceptions and thought processes -- 3. Logic : deduction and induction -- 4. Critical thinking : fact pattern analysis -- 5. Logical reasoning : legal inferences -- 6. Back to basics : criminal investigation skills -- 7. Personality profiling : the compass -- 8. Personality profiling : the map -- 9. Profiling the criminal mind : criminal investigative analysis -- 10. Interviewing and interrogation -- 11. Kinesic interviewing and body language -- 12. Deception detective : discourse and content analysis -- 13. Analytical investigative methods : processing data -- 14. Communicating skills : critical documentation -- 15. Logical presentation methods : conveying information -- 16. Using logical investigative methods : recapitulation.
Summary:
"This book describes how to use logic, reasoning, critical thinking, and the scientific method to conduct and improve criminal and civil investigations. The author discusses how investigators and attorneys can avoid assumptions and false premises and instead make valid deductions, inductions, and inferences. He explains how tools such as interview and interrogation can be used to detect deception and profile unknown individuals and suspects. The book is aimed at improving not only the conduct of investigations, but also the logical use of cognitive tools, analytical tools, documentation tools, and presentation tools to win cases"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.