We Get Confessions

By Albert Joseph

Book Overview

This book embodies the highly-effective strategies and techniques as taught in the BowMac "Basic Interview and Interrogation" course utilizing the vast experience and position of its author, Albert... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964744805
• ISBN13: 9780964744806
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Albert Josephbooks
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

An excellent read...

This book by retired Lieut. Albert Joseph Jr. should be mandatory reading for all new police officers. The book provides many useful tips and strategies for "getting that confession". Joseph goes even further and makes the interrogation strategies come to life with his many on the job examples. The book is a quick read, and is thoroughly enjoyable. As a police officer, I have been able to successfully use many of Joseph's strategies in my investigations, and I highly recommend it to fellow officers. Having read several other manuals on the same subject, I have yet to find one that is as practicle and enjoyable.

Is your boyfriend lying?

This book is not only a police guide but also a great window into human psychology and behavior. With chapters such as how to put the suspect at ease during an interrogation, oh, excuse me "interview" and how to read nonverbal cues to see if a suspect is lying, it makes me want to put at least one of my ex-es in a room with his back to the door and see if he taps his feet or averts his eyes when I ask where he was on a particular evening.The author is extremely astute about human nature and uses personal experience and a down to earth writing style that makes this book fun and easy to understand. (O.K. he likes to CAP words a lot, but it ends up being CHARMING instead of annoying.)

GREAT, GREAT BOOK!

I am a police officer in northern Ohio. I was always fustrated doing interviews, I knew I had the right guy, but just didn't know how to get them to tell me they did it. Till I read this book. This book helped me ten-fold with my interviews. This book will not make you an expert interviewer over night. Only time and experience doing interviews will do that. But this book steered me in the right direction. After reading this book my interview techique got alot better and I started getting alot more confessions. The author tells it in plain english and it's easy to understand. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to be a better interviewer.

Extremely useful, realistic and down-to-earth

My local police chief recommended this book when I asked about police interviewing and interrogation techniques. I'm not in law enforcement. I'm a writer trying to get a window into the law enforcement world, and this book, with its realistic view and frank and helpful information about handling suspects and persuading them to confess was very useful. Ignore the sometimes awkward prose. Joseph tells it like it is. The story about the duck, by itself, would make it worth reading.

Great book for anyone that does interviews/interrogations

This book covers legal issues, including Miranda, preparing for court, preparing for the interview and how to take the confession. It talks about real stories including a whole chapter on serial killer Shawcross who killed 13 people and how the confession was taken. It also explains how to find a guilty person from a whole group of employees.