Criminal investigation : a method for reconstructing the past / James W. Osterburg
Publication details: New York : anderson publishing, c1992.Edition: 4th editionDescription: xiv, 817 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 1593459602
- 363.25 22 OST
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CONTENT
SECTION I. THE FOUNDATION AND PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
PART A. SOURCES AND USES OF INFORMATION
1. The investigator: Responsibilities and attributes; Origins and trends
2. Physical evidence: Development, Interpretation, Investigative value
3. Physical evidence: Discovery, presentation, correction, transmission
4. People as a source of information
5. Records and files: Investigative uses and sources-Public and private
PART B. SEEKING AND OBTAINING INFORMATION: PEOPLE AND RECORDS
6. Interviews: Obtaining information from witness
7. Records and files: Natural resource or arid archive?
8. Informants: Cultivation and motivation
PART C. FOLLOW-UP MEASURES
9. Surveillance: A fact-finding tool-legality and practice
10. Eye witness identification: Guidelines and procedures
11. Integration: Purpose and principles
12. Integration of suspects and hostile witnesses: Guidelines and procedures
PART II. APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES TO CRIMINALINVESTIGATION
13. Reconstructing the past: Methods, evidence and examples
14. Homicide
15. Robbery
16. Rape and other sexual crimes
17. Arson
SECTION III. SPECIALIZED INVESTIGATIONS
19. Terrorism
20. Information technology: Organized, economic and white collar crimes technology
21. Enterprise : Organized, economic and white collar crimes technology
22. The automobile and crime
etc...
Appendices
Includes index
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