"Criminal Investigation, Fifth Edition offers a comprehensive and engaging examination of criminal investigation and the vital role criminal evidence plays in the process. Written in a straightforward manner, the text focuses on the five critical areas essential to understanding criminal investigations: background and contextual issues, criminal evidence, legal procedures, evidence collection procedures, and forensic science. In this brand new edition, author Steve Brandl goes beyond a simple how-to on investigative procedures, and draws from fascinating modern research, comprehensive cases, and criminal evidences to demonstrate their importance in the real world of criminal justice"--
The manner in which criminal investigators are trained is neither uniform nor consistent, ranging from sophisticated training protocols in some departments to on-the-job experience alongside senior investigators in others.
This text 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.
Easy to read and well-organized, Criminal Investigation, 11th edition provides a practical, field-based approach to the modern investigative principles and practices you need to succeed in criminal justice.
A candid, real-world look at investigations, from crime scene to courtroom, shared by an ACTUAL investigator.
While Fuhrman checked the area around the air-conditioning unit, Detective Phillips called Simpson at the Chicago hotel in which he was staying and notified him of the murder of his ex-wife. According to Phillips, Simpson never asked ...
In September, New Scotland Yard detectives received a tip regarding an odd man named Colin Stagg. For the next year, he became their investigative focus, and in August 1993, after a covert operation involving a ...
Aldert Vrij, Ronald P. Fisher, and Hartmut Blank, “A Cognitive Approach to Lie Detection: A Meta-Analysis,” Legal and ... Donald Krapohl and Pamela Shaw, Fundamentals of Polygraph Practice (San Diego: Academic Press, 2015). 61.
Criminal Investigation: Law and Practice, Second Edition, has been written to provide future law enforcement officers with a basic understanding of the investigative process.
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The accessible manner in which the information is conveyed makes this an ideal text for a wide-ranging audience.