Undercover Operations and Persuasion [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hicks, Randolph D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persuasion (Psychology).

Psychology.

Undercover operations.

Local Subjects:

Persuasion (Psychology).

Psychology.

Undercover operations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (109 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Charles C Thomas, 1973.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ability to persuade suspects through interpersonal communication is absolutely crucial to the undercover officer's safety and effectiveness. Basic principles of persuasion are explained in simple straightforward terms. The reader is shown how these principles must be utilized by application to a large variety of actual problem situations encountered by undercover officers. Incidents are taken from undercover investigations to furnish the reader with a basis for understanding and applying principles of persuasion which are necessary. Several of these describe communication which was not per

Contents:

""HALF TITLE: UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS AND PERSUASION""; ""TITLE PAGE: UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS AND PERSUASION ""; ""PREFACE""; ""FOREWORD""; ""CONTENTS""; ""UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS AND PERSUASION""; ""CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION: UNDERCOVER WORK AS AN APPROACH WITHIN THE FIELD OF LAW ENFORCEMENT""; ""CHAPTER II: FIRST PRINCIPLES FOR EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY""; ""CHAPTER III: PROBLEM SITUATIONS""; ""CHAPTER IV: ""NONVERBAL"" CONSIDERATION""; ""CHAPTER V: PATTERNS OF COMMUNICATION FAILURE: ECHOES OF THE NONVERBAL""; ""CHAPTER VI: COURT TESTIMONY""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""APPENDIX""

""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

0-398-08938-8

OCLC:

851972445