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David E. Zulawski, CFI, CFE, and Shane G. Sturman, CFI, CPP

Zulawski and Sturman are executives in the investigative and training firm of Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates (w-z.com). Zulawski is a senior partner, and Sturman is president. Sturman is also a member of ASIS International’s Retail Loss Prevention Council. They can be reached at 800-222-7789 or via email at dzulawski (at) w-z (dot) com and ssturman (at) w-z (dot) com.

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Investigations

Random Lessons from the Room: Part One

Conversations often take strange turns, leading where we never expect them to go. Such a conversation inspired this column discussing the lessons we’ve learned...

Investigations

Implicit or Explicit—Why Do It at All?

We have all dealt with and perhaps made threats and promises in our everyday lives. “You kids cut it out. Don’t make me stop...

Magazine Reviews

WZ Stands Behind Proper Justice

Fact: false criminal confessions exist. In the Interviewing column from the March–April 2017 issue of LP Magazine, David E. Zulawski, CFI, CFE, and Shane...

Investigations

Is It Worth the Risk?

Approximately 29 percent of DNA exonerations across the United States since 1989 involved false confessions to the crime. The actual rate of false confessions...

Investigations

The Case against Confrontation

Almost nothing ever turns out well when you call someone a name. Maybe if they accept the term, it works out. But usually it...

Investigations

Uniformity?

Ever wonder what it would be like if every time we opened a bottle of our favorite cola it tasted different? Would we be...

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Investigations

Who’s Telling the Truth? Tips for a Loss Prevention Investigator

Let’s consider the context under which an individual decides to lie. First and foremost is the deceptive individual’s fear of detection. The fear of...

Investigations

What Has Changed in Fifteen Years of Interviewing

It’s difficult to believe that it is been fifteen years since Jim Lee, Walter Palmer, and Jack Trlica established Loss Prevention magazine as the...

Retail Inventory Shrinkage

How to Manage Inventory through General Loss Interviewing

"All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown," sang Harry Chapin. It may be just a natural part of life, but it seems like what was...

Investigations

To Record or Not to Record: Part 2

In this column we will attempt to set the stage for how one might deal with organizational resistance to recording employee interviews. We asked...

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David E. Zulawski, CFI, CFE, and Shane G. Sturman, CFI, CPP

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