Criminal investigation : a method for reconstructing the past /
Osterburg, James W.
Criminal investigation : a method for reconstructing the past / James W. Osterburg, Richard H. Ward. - 6th ed. - [Albany, NY] : LexisNexis/Anderson Pub., 2010. - xxvi, 651 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
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.
Presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a method for reconstructing a past event based on three major sources of information - people, physical evidence and records. This title offers an approach to criminal investigation
9781422463284 (softbound) 1422463281 (softbound)
2010003726
Criminal investigation.
Criminal investigation--United States.
La investigación Criminal.
La investigación Criminal--Estados Unidos.
HV 8073 / O85c 2010
363.25
Criminal investigation : a method for reconstructing the past / James W. Osterburg, Richard H. Ward. - 6th ed. - [Albany, NY] : LexisNexis/Anderson Pub., 2010. - xxvi, 651 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
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.
Presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a method for reconstructing a past event based on three major sources of information - people, physical evidence and records. This title offers an approach to criminal investigation
9781422463284 (softbound) 1422463281 (softbound)
2010003726
Criminal investigation.
Criminal investigation--United States.
La investigación Criminal.
La investigación Criminal--Estados Unidos.
HV 8073 / O85c 2010
363.25