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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Albany, NY] : LexisNexis/Anderson Pub., 2010.Edition: 6th edDescription: xxvi, 651 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781422463284 (softbound)
  • 1422463281 (softbound)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.25
LOC classification:
  • HV 8073 O85c 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.
Summary: 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
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HV 8073 O85c 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000103111

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

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