Criminal investigation : a method for reconstructing the past / Osterburg, James W.

By: Osterburg, James W
Contributor(s): Ward, Richard H | Richard H. Ward [co-author.]
Publisher: [Albany, NY] : LexisNexis/Anderson Pub., c2010Edition: 6th edDescription: xxvi, 651 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN: 9781422463284 (softbound); 1422463281 (softbound)Subject(s): Criminal investigation | Criminal investigation -- United States | Criminal investigation. -- Criminal investigationDDC classification: 363.25 LOC classification: HV8073 | .O833 2010
Contents:
The investigator : responsibilities and attributes; origins and trends -- Physical evidence : development, interpretation, investigative value -- The crime scene : discovery, preservation, collection, and transmission of evidence -- People as a source of information -- Records and files : investigative uses and sources -- Interviews : obtaining information from witnesses -- Informants : cultivation and motivation -- Surveillance : a fact-finding tool--legality and practice -- Eyewitness identification : guidelines and procedures -- Interrogation : purpose and principles -- Interrogation of suspects and hostile witnesses : guidelines and procedures -- Managing criminal investigations -- Reconstructing the past : methods, evidence, examples -- Crime and constitutional law : the foundations of criminal investigation -- Evidence and effective testimony -- Homicide -- Robbery -- Rape and other sex crimes -- Burglary -- Arson and explosives -- Increasing threats and emerging crime -- Terrorism and urban disorder -- Computers and technological crime -- Enterprise crime : organized, economic, and white-collar crime.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The investigator : responsibilities and attributes; origins and trends -- Physical evidence : development, interpretation, investigative value -- The crime scene : discovery, preservation, collection, and transmission of evidence -- People as a source of information -- Records and files : investigative uses and sources -- Interviews : obtaining information from witnesses -- Informants : cultivation and motivation -- Surveillance : a fact-finding tool--legality and practice -- Eyewitness identification : guidelines and procedures -- Interrogation : purpose and principles -- Interrogation of suspects and hostile witnesses : guidelines and procedures -- Managing criminal investigations -- Reconstructing the past : methods, evidence, examples -- Crime and constitutional law : the foundations of criminal investigation -- Evidence and effective testimony -- Homicide -- Robbery -- Rape and other sex crimes -- Burglary -- Arson and explosives -- Increasing threats and emerging crime -- Terrorism and urban disorder -- Computers and technological crime -- Enterprise crime : organized, economic, and white-collar crime.

Includes index.

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