Tom Williamson was a senior police officer in both the Metropolitan and Nottinghamshire police forces. He was also one of the pioneers behind the establishment of the Institute of Criminal Justice at Portsmouth University in 1992.

Becky Milne is a Reader in Forensic Psychology at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth.

Stephen Savage is Professor of Criminology at theInstitute of Criminal Justice Studies, Portsmouth University.

Foreword Introduction Part 1: Investigative interviewing and interrogation around the world 1. Investigative interviewing of suspects in Australia 2. Investigative interviewing in the UK 3. Investigative interviewing in the Nordic region 4. Police interviewing in France, Belgium and the Netherlands: something is moving 5. Police interrogation in Canada: from the quest for confession to the search for the truth 6. Interview and interrogation: a perspective and update from the USA Part 2: Current issues in interrogation and investigative interviewing 7. A critical analysis of the Utilitarian case for torture and the situational factors that lead some people to become torturers 8. Investigative interviewing as a therapeutic jurisprudential approach 9. Increasing cognitive load in interviews to detect deceit 10. Detecting deceit: current issues