Criminal Investigation & Detection

Techniques in the investigative interviewing and interrogation of victims, witnesses and suspects of crime vary around the world, according to a co...

'Superb - one of the best real-life copy books ever written.' Lee ChildIn a true crime cross between James Ellroy and David Simon's The Wire, A Goo...

Death Investigation: An Introduction to Forensic Pathology for the Nonscientist provides students and law enforcement professionals with an accurat...

A classic in the field, Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past, Eighth Edition, presents the fundamentals of criminal investi...

Welcome to Alphabet City, Manhattan's most crime-ridden neighbourhood with murder, rape and violence hitting record levels the streets, fuelled by ...

Here is the story of the process by which competitive speech and debate evolved in the United States during the 20th Century. This authoritative ...

Terrorists constantly present new challenges to law enforcement, emergency response teams, security planners, and others involved in counterterrori...

The study of police history in Scotland has largely been neglected. Little is known about the Scottish police's origins, development and character ...

The objective of this book is to review the position of investigative interviewing in a variety of different countries, with different types of cri...

The approach that should be used by law enforcement officers in order to safely and effectively enter a room is a point of contention among many po...

What are the current and future challenges in criminal investigation carried out by the police in the UK? How has the role of the detective changed...

Tradecraft is a term used within the intelligence community to describe the methods, practices, and techniques used in espionage and clandestine in...

DNA testing and banking has become institutionalized in the Canadian criminal justice system. As accepted and widespread though the practice is, th...

DNA testing and banking has become institutionalized in the Canadian criminal justice system. As accepted and widespread though the practice is, th...

An examination of the forces and events that led to the most successful organized crime control initiatives in American history Since Prohibition, ...

Well-informed and skilled interviewing is a key factor in dealingwith suspects, victims and witnesses. Experienced police andinvestigators know thi...

Most incidents of violent crime occur between people who know each other, but in other cases (fortunately much less frequent) there are no obvious ...

Praise for Crime Classification Manual "The very first book by and for criminal justice professionals in the major case fields. . . . The skills, t...

Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators presents applied philosophical analyses of the ethical issues that ar...

Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators presents applied philosophical analyses of the ethical issues that ar...

Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. In Terrorism as Crime Mark S. Hamm pr...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Ku Klux Klan share a long and complicated history. Beginning with their first confrontation in 192...

Community policing seems always in vogue, yet its essential qualities remain elusive. There has been a rush to evaluate community policing before c...

This is the first full scholarly study of the Metropolitan Police in the period 1870-1914, the time when it was transformed into a recognizable mod...

Ten percent of the world’s population lives on islands, but until now the place and space characteristics of islands in criminological theory have ...

Labour exploitation is a highly topical though complex issue that has international resonance for those concerned with social justice and social we...

An examination of the forces and events that led to the most successful organized crime control initiatives in American history Since Prohibition, ...

While the history of the uniformed police has prompted considerable research, the historical study of police detectives has been largely neglected;...

This full length study provides a basic account of the rationale and content of victimization surveys; it examines the value of crime/victim survey...

Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical study of drug i...

The award-winning, definitive account of Australia's most notorious cold case, now fully updated with new information Winner of the Ned Kelly Award...

Incident response and digital forensics require a balancing act to get right, but both are essential when an information security incident occurs. ...

The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator Frances Glessner ...

‘Snort up “Cocaine Nights”. It’s disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock’ Will Self ...

This book is about the increasing significance of DNA profiling for crime investigation in modern society. It focuses on developments in the UK as ...

'Butler and West are fast becoming my favourite detective partnership... Addictive reading!' Alison Belsham, author of The Tattoo ThiefNothing is a...