Innovative Solutions for both Public and Private Entities
Case Review
Approaches to Human Engagement
Approaches to Human Engagement
Whether you are a police agency or prosecutor's office trying to resolve a cold case, a law firm investigating for a client, or a business with an internal investigation to resolve, we are here to help you resolve your matter utilizing the same research-backed analysis of human behavior applied by FBI Profilers.
Approaches to Human Engagement
Approaches to Human Engagement
Approaches to Human Engagement
Human engagement can take many forms. soliciting response through interviewing/conversation, media, and action. At Motives Unlocked, we apply behavioral analysis to tailor your approach to the personality of the individual or group with which engagement is desired. Understanding personality and motivations is key to human engagement because it helps you increase the receptiveness of the individual or group to the message you want to convey or the action you want to influence.
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance
At Motives Unlocked, we are available to provide review and consultation to authors, producers, filmmakers, and media companies so they may add authenticity to their creative works, whether they are crafting stories about the FBI, FBI Profilers, investigations or behavioral analysis.
Expert Instruction
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance
Are you interested in learning more about behavioral profiling? Are you a school developing a curriculum geared to law enforcement and behavioral analysis? Are you an agency in need of specific training? Motives Unlocked can help you meet your training needs. We are also available to help advise you on curriculum development. If what you need is outside of our expertise, we can find someone to assist through our network of providers.
Case Review and Investigative Recommendations
We review all of the available information about your case and provide an unbiased objective opinion and assessment. We help you avoid the BIGGEST mistake. We can provide behaviorally based actionable recommendations to help resolve your case. With the right case materials, we can provide an Indirect Personality Assessment and, if prudent and applicable, an Unknown Subject Profile.
Interview Strategy
Personality Based Interviewing
We craft interview strategies that are based on the personality and behavioral characteristics of the intended interviewee. We conduct an indirect personality assessment based upon the material that you provide. We utilize research backed techniques and design the approach to increase receptivity and engagement.
Enhanced Memory Recall and Credibility Assessment
We use the latest research in memory retrieval and credibility assessment based in cognitive science and teach you how to utilize it for the best possible interview outcome. We can also conduct a cognitive interview for you.
Media Strategy and Messaging
Use the Media Effectively
Maximize Information Gathering and Action
Maximize Information Gathering and Action
Common mistakes made with handling media include releasing information without maximizing the benefit to the agency. Releasing information should have a purpose beyond the release itself. The release should be controlled by the agency rather than dictated by the media. The message should be conveyed by the ideal messenger, given the particular situation.
Maximize Information Gathering and Action
Maximize Information Gathering and Action
Maximize Information Gathering and Action
We help you craft messaging and the mechanism for a release that targets the audience you want and benefits your agency's objectives while meeting the media demand. We can structure messaging for the public, for a particular group of individuals, or a single person, such as a criminal offender. Messages can also target a combination. We utilize human behavior unique to your case to convey a more effective message.
Trial Strategy
Maximize Examinations with Human Behavior
Maximize Examinations with Human Behavior
Maximize Examinations with Human Behavior
Not only can we discuss overarching trial narrative strategies, but we can also provide assistance using human behavior to facilitate the prep and examination of witnesses including experts for both sides.
Tell the Jury AND Show Them
Maximize Examinations with Human Behavior
Maximize Examinations with Human Behavior
Witnesses can have personality characteristics that can be difficult to understand and can be both positive and negative for the case. We can use those personality characteristics to craft examinations which demonstrate them effectively for jury. This can be incredibly helpful when dealing with a witness who does not react the way people expect or on examination of a witness whose personality characteristics play heavily into their motives.
Technical Advice
We provide technical advice to authors, producers, filmmakers, and media companies on a wide variety of law enforcement topics. We offer consultation on the conduct of a variety of types of investigations, including serial and sexual murder, sexual assaults, child abductions, organized crime, threat cases, and other violent and white-collar crimes. We can offer specific advice on forensic evidence, behavioral analysis, and general law enforcement tactics as well.
Instruction and Curriculum Development
Curriculum Development Consulting
Motives Unlocked brings years of experience to assist in developing an academic program in Behavioral Analysis for academic institutions or law enforcement agencies interested in forming a behavioral analysis component.
Instruction
Additionally, we offer instruction in Criminal Investigative Analysis, Victimology, Behaviorally Based Interviewing, Cognitive Interviewing and Credibility Assessment, Media Strategy, Equivocal Death Investigations, Crime Scene Analysis, and Serial and Sexual Murder. If we cannot provide instruction to meet your needs, we can help you find the right instructors through our network of providers.