A team of professionals involved in law enforcement and criminal justice clarify the effective design and use of the interview, and detail how to make the interview process one that yields the most accurate and comprehensive information. The interview is an arena of diverse and sometimes complicated skills. For this encounter, four overarching areas are fully explored: before interviewing, conducting the interview, special areas, and integration. The wealth of material within this range is impressive. Expected topics emerge such as human needs as motivators, various principles of interviewing, ethical standards, questions to avoid, listening skills, the role of private investigators. At the same time, an array of more subtle or difficult factors are taken up: legal framework of interrogation, neurolinguistics, physical setting concerns, polygraph use, interviewing children, the Stockholm syndrome. Useful exercises appear throughout and objectives are clearly outlined. The book would make a useful text for an interviewing course in a criminal justice program. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)