Fundamentals of Interviewing and Interrogation

Darrel Lambert

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Routledge
11 November 2025

Police & security services; Social, group or collective psychology; Criminal or forensic psychology; Criminology: legal aspects; Groups & group theory

This book provides interviewers, particularly police investigators, with everything they need to conduct effective, ethical interviews with criminal suspects. The author pulls from his training and experience to provide instruction on interviewing and interrogation, an essential area of investigations.

This book provides both the theory behind interview techniques as well as the practical application, which appeals to different learning styles. It can be read as a whole, or it can be picked up and skimmed for ideas on how to approach certain interviews. Unique to this book are the case studies. These discuss cases moving from first considerations, to strategy, to the actual interrogation monologues.

The primary audience is police investigators, but anybody conducting interviews as a regular aspect of their job duties can benefit from this book. This might include military, loss prevention, or arson investigators, to name a few.

By: Darrel Lambert
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9781041122661
ISBN 10: 1041122667
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 11 November 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction Chapter 1. Now and Later Interviews Chapter 2. Questioning Chapter 3. Deception Detection Chapter 4. Contact With the Suspect Chapter 5. Interview Room Setup Chapter 6. Greeting Chapter 7. Custodial Issues Chapter 8. Rapport Building Chapter 9. Evidence Presentation Chapter 10. Interrogation Chapter 11. Case Studies Chapter 12. Short Essays Conclusion

Darrel Lambert is an active police investigator for a major metropolitan police department. He has been with the department for over 18 years, including seven as a detective. He is currently assigned to the homicide unit, but has experience with the investigation of violent crime, including the physical and sexual abuse of children. In his role as a detective, he has conducted hundreds of hours of suspect interviews in cases ranging from simple assault to murder. He stepped into a teaching role on the subject of interviewing and interrogation in 2020 and with partner Valentin De Los Santos serves as lead instructor on interview and interrogation for his department. Lambert and De Los Santos have taught at the Crimes Against Children Conference in Dallas, Texas, every year since 2022. In 2023, they co-founded Modern Interviewing Solutions (moderninterviewingsolutions.com) to teach police investigators from around the country how to conduct interviews and interrogations ethically and effectively. Lambert holds a Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University. Most importantly, he is a husband to an amazing wife and a father to two wonderful children.