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Capili (Felix N.) Notes on Lie Detection and Criminal Interrogation
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Felix N. Capili notes on lie detection and criminal interrogation
Creator:
Capili, Felix N.
source:
B & L Rootenberg Fine & Rare Books
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0701
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 manuscript)
Date: 1954
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from B & L Rootenberg Fine & Rare Books, 2016.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
8070260
[Identification of item], Felix N. Capili notes on lie detection and criminal interrogation (Collection 701). Louise M. Darling
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
Detective Felix N. Capili (1926-2010) of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department first details the history and development
of the polygraph, and sets forth instructions for its use. "Significant are the number of cases described and how suspects
reacted to testing. The illustrations demonstrate physiological factors and responses detected in test readings, and references
polygraph results from actual criminal cases. The second section lays out the various psychological principles of questioning,
especially with different types of offenders, discusses profiling, and describes specific tactics to use in various circumstances,
such as appealing to the suspect's pride, the futility of resistance, condemning the victim, use of exaggeration, and of course
the 'good cop/bad cop' method. There are sections on the ethics of interrogation, as well as a discussion of incriminating
statements, a suspect's constitutional rights, and confessions in court. Capili references many Supreme Court cases and the
effects of those decisions on interrogation procedures. The polygraph had been invented as an interrogation tool in the late
nineteenth century, and became more widely used following the techniques described by Fred Inbau and John E. Reid in the landmark
Lie detection and criminal interrogation (1942, revised in 1948 and 1953). In this treatise, Det. Capili ... has created a
document for training others in crime solving through detection of truth and deception as well as the best method of extracting
confessions from evildoers. He here references many specific supreme court cases and the effects of those decisions on interrogation
procedures."
The manuscript is typewritten on thin paper. There are handwritten annotations and underlining throughout. Several photographs
of polygraph records are pasted-in and labeled, along with an annotated plate, from a published source, annotated by hand.
Source: Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2016.
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B & L Rootenberg Fine & Rare Books