Criminal Investigation:In Search of the Truth - Brossura

Allen Bill, Van

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0131972715 ISBN 13: 9780131972711

Casa editrice: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2006

Riassunto

Criminal Investigation: In Search of the Truth has been written for Police Foundations or Law and Security Administration courses in Ontario colleges.

 

This text will be enthusiastically welcomed by instructors and students taking courses in Interviewing and Investigation or Investigation and Evidence.

It is an authentic text full of real-life examples, that brings together a plethora of materials in a clear and very readable style with a concise format. 

 

Lessons are structured in a building-block fashion that allows students to utilize the knowledge learned in previous lessons as they progress throughout the text. The text establishes an introductory framework dealing with the basic investigative function and matters of evidence. The remaining chapters then mirror exactly what occurs during an actual investigation—interviewing victims and witnesses, interrogating suspects,  examining crime scenes, collecting and handling evidence, managing complex issues such as victim and media relations—and culminates in preparing and presenting successful investigations in court. The entire textbook emphasizes the need for a methodical and systematic approach and promotes an ethical and interdisciplinary methodology of investigating criminal and quasi-criminal occurrences.

Written by Bill Van Allen, a retired police officer and detective with 31 years experience in the field - Criminal Investigations Branch, OPP - this book is the most current, authoritative and well-written text available.

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Recensione

"A superb manuscript that deserves high praise! I feel that it is a giant leap forward, as it has brought together a plethora of varied materials in a clear, concise and readable format that has, thus far, been absent in the field."

Oliver R. Stoetzer, Fanshawe College, Police Foundations Program

 

"This text has at least one advantage over other similar texts....the clear and concise way it presents the investigative component of the subject area applicable to a Canadian context. It is also well written and easy to follow."

Harry Stavrou, Connestoga College, Police Foundations Program

 

"I think the length is excellent, informative enough but not overly complicated to confuse the reader/student. This text is definitely superior to any other I have seen to date. "

Scott Nicholls, Humber College, Police Foundations

 

"I found the text current, very current.  I think the author's use of real-life examples is a valuable method for framing concepts  for students. There is absolutely nothing wrong with 'war stories' that graphically demonstrate points [and] the use of Case Law was relevant and very appropriate.

 James MacMaster, Algonquin College, Police and Public Safety Institute

 

L'autore

Bill Van Allen began his policing career with the Ontario Provincial Police in 1975.  Between 1997 and 2003, he served as the Project Director of the Campbell Report Implementation Project, responsible for the design and implementation of a Major Case Management System, now used by all Ontario police services and the Ontario Provincial Police in the investigation of predatory crimes such as sexual assaults and homicides. In January 2004 D.I. Van Allen retired from law enforcement after a thirty-one year career that encompassed eighteen years of full-time criminal investigative duties. During his career, he investigated over fifty homicides, suspicious deaths, suicides, robberies, arsons, sexual offences, drugs, break and enters and other major crimes.

 

Among other accomplishments, the author has received the Commissioner’s Citation for investigative excellence and is a recipient of the Police Exemplary Service Medal. The author is a life member of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police and a former member of the Harvard Associates in Police Science and the International Homicide Investigators Association. In 2003, Van Allen began teaching in the Justice and Public Safety Institute at Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology at the Barrie and Orillia campuses.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0131972715
• ISBN 13: 9780131972711
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile