TY  - BOOK
AU  - Osterburg,James W.
AU  - Ward,Richard H.
TI  - Criminal investigation: a method for reconstructing the past 
SN  - 9781422463284 (softbound)
AV  - HV 8073 O85c 2010
U1  - 363.25 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - [Albany, NY]
PB  - LexisNexis/Anderson Pub.
KW  - Criminal investigation
KW  - United States
KW  - La investigación Criminal
KW  - Estados Unidos
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -