Key Features
- Expanded material on fraud, international crime, and the influence of technology on criminal investigation
- New full-color presentation, including dozens of photographs, graphics, tables, charts, and diagrams
- Key terms and discussion questions stress important concepts in each chapter
Description
The seventh edition of Criminal Investigation presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a sound method for reconstructing a past event (i.e., a crime) based on three major sources of information - people, records, and physical evidence. In addition to covering fundamental practices such as surveillance, interrogation and eyewitness identification, this volume is updated with the latest techniques available. Students and beginning professionals in criminal justice will find new ways of obtaining information from people, including mining social media outlets; navigating the labyrinth of records and files available online; and fresh ways of gathering, identifying, and analyzing physical evidence. Special topics in terrorism, organized crime, and white-collar crime round out this complete guide to the discipline of criminal investigation practice.
Criminal Investigation, 7th Edition
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
SECTION 1 - 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. The Crime Scene: Discovery, Preservation and, Collection, and Transmission of Evidence
4. People as Sources of Investigation
PART B - SEEKING AND OBTAINING INFORMATION: PEOPLE AND RECORDS
5. Records and Files: Investigative Uses and Sources
6. Interviews: Obtaining Information From Witnesses
7. Informants: Cultivation and Motivation
PART C - FOLLOW-UP MEASURES: REAPING INFORMATION
8. Surveillance: A Fact-finding Tool - Legality and Practice
9. Eyewitness Identification: Guidelines and Procedures
10. Interrogation of Suspects and Hostile Witnesses: Guidelines and Procedures
PART D - THE INFLUENCE AND IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY
11. The Influence of Technology on Crime Investigation
12. Crime Analysis and Coming Attractions in the Investigator’s Toolbox
SECTION II - APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES TO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
13. Managing Criminal Investigations
14. Reconstructing the Past: Methods, Evidence, Examples
15. Crime and Constitutional Law: The Foundations of Criminal Investigations
16. Evidence and Effective Testimony
17. Homicide
18. Robbery
19. Sex Crimes
20. Burglary
21. Arson and Explosives
SECTION III - SPECIAL TOPICS
22. The Global Picture: Increasing Threats and Emerging Crime
23. Terrorism and Urban Disorder
24. Enterprise Crime: Organized, Economic, and White-Collar Crime
