Handbook of Criminal Investigation
Contributors: Williamson, Tom; Wright, Alan
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cullompton
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 729
ISBN-13: 9781843926153
Subjects: Criminal investigation
Description: This book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative book yet published on the subject of criminal investigation, a rapidly developing area within the police and other law enforcement agencies, and an important sub discipline within police studies. The subject is rarely out of the headlines, and there is widespread media interest in criminal investigation. Handbook of Criminal Investigation provides a rigorous and critical approach to not only the process of criminal investigation but also the context in which this takes place, the theory underlying it, and the variety of factors which.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Prelims; Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Understanding Investigation; Part 1 Criminal Investigation in Context; 2. history of criminal investigation; 3 Social context of criminal investigation; 4. Psychology and criminal investigation; 5. Law and criminal investigation; 6. Criminal investigation and the media; Part 2. Organization of criminal investigation; 7. International structures and transnational crime; 8. Criminal intelligence and the National Intelligence Model; 9. The investigation of high-volume crime; 10. Investigation order and major crime inquiries.; title: 11. Private investigationPart 3. Forensic techniques; 12. Principles of forensic identification science; 13. Forensic investigation in the UK; 14. trace biometrics and criminal investigations; 15. The application of forensic science to criminal investigation; Part 4. Investigative sources and processes; 16. Models of investigation; 17. Covert surveillance and informer handling; 18. Victims and witnesses in criminal investigations; 19. Invest.