March 14, 2007

Crime and Punishment

Forensics Class

INT. Living room: You stare at the TV, flipping from one CSI rerun to another, contemplating how many hours of Bones you can record on TiVo.

You may have mastered the plot lines of prime time crimes, but behavior analysis and lie detection? Not so much. (Otherwise that sticky-fingered roommate would have gotten the boot ages ago.)

With a one-day forensic interviewing course at the Boston Center for Adult Education, you’ll be sniffing out sinisters faster than Grissom or Caine.

Taught by a former police officer and forensic psychophysiologist for the CIA, the class covers scientific interviewing, from the basic head-on approach to managing (read: controlling) a conversation. You’ll learn which questions to ask and how to interpret the answers correctly.

It’s way more in-depth than what you see on TV. And just imagine how much more effective it will make you on your next interview, conference call, or parking ticket scuffle.

Case closed.

Saturday, March 17, at 9 a.m., at the Boston Center for Adult Education, 5 Commonwealth Avenue, Back Bay (617-267-4430 or bcae.org).