Criminal Investigation & Detection

Many changes have occurred in the twenty-five years that have passed since the enactment of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986. The law has b...

Time is an abducted child’s worst enemy. Seventy-four percent of abducted children who are murdered are killed within three hours of their abductio...

Every year, esteemed scholars and practitioners meet at the International Police Executive Symposium to discuss contemporary issues in policing and...

At the dawn of the Victorian age there was effectively no police detective force in Britain and detecting methods were rudimentary; by the end of V...

This edited volume offers a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of interrogation and questioning in war and conflict in the twentieth centur...

William Burns is best known as ‘America’s Sherlock Holmes’ and became director at the Bureau of Investigation, to be immediately followed by J. Edg...

Danger in Police Culture: Perspectives from South Africa offers a fresh perspective on how officers understand, interpret and construct danger. Wit...

The manner in which criminal investigators are trained is neither uniform nor consistent, ranging from sophisticated training protocols in some dep...

Since the last edition of this book was written more than a decade ago, cybercrime has evolved. Motives have not changed, but new means and opportu...

First published in 1996. In keeping with the other volumes in the Current Issues in Criminal justice series, this anthology is a prime example of j...

Crime and Social Change in Middle England offers a new way of looking at contemporary debates on the fear of crime. Using observation, interviews a...

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

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...