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020 _a101593454295
050 _aHV8073.O833
100 _aOsterburg W. James
245 _aCriminal investigation:
_ba method of reconstructing the past /
_cJames W. Osterburg and Richard H. Ward
250 _a5th
260 _aNew Jersey:
_bLexis Nexis,
_cc2007.
300 _axiv, 837p.
_bill.
_c25cm+
500 _aIncludes index
505 _aContents: 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.
650 _aCriminology
700 _aWard, Richard W.
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_cBK
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