Criminal investigation
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Criminal investigation
McGraw-Hill, c1992
5th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This text combines research and practical step-by-step procedures, providing a logical framework for students. The text focuses on investigation as a systematic method of inquiry that relies heavily on science as well as human initiative and resourcefulness. This edition includes information on recent crime patterns and detection techniques and contains a new chapter on the future of criminal justice. An instructor's manual is available.
Table of Contents
- The evolution of criminal investigation and criminalistics
- crime and its investigation
- crime scene and its associated procedures
- physical evidence
- interviews
- field notes and reporting
- follow up investigation
- interrogation
- the crime laboratory and the criminal investigation process
- behavioural analysis in criminal investigation
- injury and death investigation
- sex-related offences
- robbery
- burglary investigation
- larceny offences
- vehicle theft and related offences
- computer crime
- agricultural, wildlife, and environmental crimes
- arson investigation
- recognition, control and investigation of drug abuse
- the decision to initiate the criminal process
- the rules of evidence
- the investigator as witness
- the future of criminal investigation.
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