/ James W. Osterburg, University of Illinois, Richard H. Ward, University of New Haven
7th edition.
Waltham,MA;USA
: ap-Elsevier
, 2014.
xxxii, 687 p.
: ; ill
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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 of suspects and hostile witnesses : guidelines and procedures -- The influence of technology on crime investigation -- Crime analysis and coming attractions in the investigator's toolbox -- Managing criminal investigations -- Reconstructing the past : methods, evidence, examples -- Crime and constitutional law : the foundations of criminal investigation -- Evidence and effective testimony -- Homicide -- Robbery -- Sex crimes -- Burglary -- Arson and explosives -- Increasing threats and emerging crime -- Terrorism and urban disorder -- Enterprise crime : organized, economic, and white-collar crime.