Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past - Brossura

Osterburg, James W.

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ISBN 10: 1593454295 ISBN 13: 9781593454296

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007

Riassunto

Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past is written to educate readers about how detective work should be conducted and how to clarify the investigative process. The text includes a comprehensive discussion of the fundamentals of criminal investigations and the method for reconstructing an event or crime. The ideas presented in this book are based on three major sources of information: people, physical evidence, and records.

The authors organize the parts of the text into three sections. The first section covers the foundation and principles of criminal investigation, including responsibilities and attributes of an investigator; interpretation of physical evidence; discovery of crime scenes; and the preservation, collection and transmission of evidence. Included in this division of the text is the illustration and discussion of the methods of seeking and obtaining information from people and records; followed by the discussion about surveillance, witness identification and interrogation procedures. The second part of the book covers the application of the principles discussed in the first section to criminal investigation. It includes the procedures of reconstructing the past events and the crime, and constitutional law, which forms the appropriate methods of criminal investigation and the categories of crimes. The last section of the book presents numerous special topics such as the emergence of crime, terrorism and urban disorder, computers and technological crime, and enterprise crime.

The book is written for students, beginners, non-experts and professionals in the criminal justice field.

• Dozens of photographs, graphics, table, charts and diagrams supplement the text.
• A glossary elaborates on terms found in the text, gathered into one handy reference.

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Contenuti

SECTION I

THE FOUNDATION AND PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

PART A

SOURCES AND USES OF INFORMATION

1. The Investigator: Responsibilities and Attributes; Origins and Trends

2. Physical Evidence: Development, Interpretation, Investigative Value

3. Physical Evidence: Discovery, Preservation, Collection, Transmission

4. People as a Source of Information

5. Records and Files: Investigative Uses and Sources-Public and Private

PART B

SEEKING AND OBTAINING INFORMATION: PEOPLE AND RECORDS

6. Interviews: Obtaining Information from Witnesses

7. Records and Files: Nurtured Resource or Arid Archive?

8. Informants: Cultivation and Motivation

PART C

FOLLOW-UP MEASURES: REAPING INFORMATION

9. Surveillance: A Fact-Finding Tool-Legality and Practice

10. Eyewitness Identification: Guidelines and Procedures

11. Interrogation: Purpose and Principles

12. Interrogation of Suspects and Hostile Witnesses: Guidelines and Procedures

SECTION II

APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES TO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

13. Reconstructing the Past: Methods, Evidence, Examples

14. What is Crime?

15. Homicide

16. Robbery

17. Rape and Other Sex Crimes

18. Burglary

19. Arson

20. Increasing Threats and Emerging Crime

21. Terrorism

22. Computers and Technological Crime

23. Enterprise Crime: Organized, Economic, and White-Collar Crime

24. The Automobile and Crime

25. Managing Criminal Investigations

26. Control Over Investigations Through Constitutional Law

27. Evidence and Effective Testimony

28. Putting It All Together: A Case Study of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

29. Raids: Reflections on Their Management

30. Miscarriages of Justice

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1593454295
• ISBN 13: 9781593454296
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 880
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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