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Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques
Second Edition, By Nathan J. Gordon and William L. Fleisher; published by Academic Press;
available from ASIS, item # 1690, 703/15-6200 (phone), www.asisonline.org;
312 pages; $70 (ASIS members), $77 (non-members)
This is a “toolbox” book about detecting deception, which clearly and logically explains how to prepare for, structure, and conduct interviews and interrogations. It explains, among other things, the tactics of questioning, the use of relevant, irrelevant, and comparison questions; and the use of questions that will et an innocent person to lie and a guilty person to tell the truth. The book also describes psychological tests that can administered prior to an interview. Such tests can provide a base line upon which truthfulness of responses can be measured and upon which body language can be read. Fleisher and Gordon have now come out with a new edition which contains a chapter on torture and false confessions. It distinguishes between using “coercive techniques” to solved crimes that have already occurred and to prevent terrorist attacks that have yet to materialize. The weakness of the chapter is contained in how it comes to its conclusion. It warns against excessive coercion, summing up with the assertion that, “regardless of the situation, you should never do any thing at the expense of your soul.” Prohibitions against torture exist to protect a powerless subject against excesses by the state, not to preserve the soul of the interrogator.
Security Management – October 2006
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Enhancing Computer Security Smart Technology
By V. Rao Vemuri; published by Auerbach Publications, www.crcpress.com; 288 pages; $99.95
Enhancing Computer security with Smart Technology is not a work that the average security professional will find worth slogging through. Chapters, contributed by several writers, have titles such as “Artificial Immune Systems in Intrusion Detection” and “Applications of Wavelets in Net work Security.” But most of the authors are from the academic, not corporate, community. The book is a collection of nine tutorials that were written by fifteen authors, and they don’t connect well. The goal of the book is to show how to use “smart technology” (which, regrettably, the authors never define to enhance computer security. Much of the book is based on machine-learning tools, including algorithmic aspects of machine learning.
Security Management – October 2006
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