Includes index

Contents: The Foundation and principles of criminal investigation -- Sources and uses of information -- The Investigator: responsibilities and attributes; origins and trends -- Physical Evidence: development, interpretation, investigative value -- Physical evidence: discovery, preservation, collection, transmission -- People as a source of information -- Records and files: investigative uses and sources - public and private -- Seeking and obtaining information: people and records -- Interviews: obtaining information from witnesses -- Records and files: nurtured resource or arid archive? -- Informants: cultivation and motivation -- Follow-up measures: reaping information -- 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 -- Applying the principles to criminal investigation -- Reconstructing the past: methods, evidence, examples -- What is crime? -- Homicide -- Robbery -- Rape and other sex crimes -- Burglary -- Arson -- Increasing threats and emerging crime -- Terrorism -- Computers and technological crime -- Enterprise crime: organized, economic, and white-collar crime -- The Automobile and crime -- Special topics -- Managing criminal investigations -- Control over investigations through constitutional law -- Evidence and effective testimony -- Putting it together: a case study of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- Raids: reflections on their management -- Miscarriages of justice.