Investigation: A Comprehensive Guide to the Basic Principles, Procedures and Forensic Processes

Product Details:
Author(s):
Lochner, H ,
Zinn, R and
Horne, J S
Year Published:
2020
Edition
1st Edition
Type:
Print | Soft Cover
Language:
English
About this publication
Investigation: A Comprehensive Guide to the Basic Principles, Procedures and Forensic Processes equips prospective investigators with the principles that they must know and apply to successfully carry out their duties. The aim of this book is not to train prospective investigators in investigating crime, but to make them aware of the principles of criminal investigation that will enable them to bring an investigation to a successful conclusion. For any investigating officer to be successful in pursuing the objectives of criminal investigation, he or she must take cognisance of the five questions rule:
What evidence and information do I have?
What evidence and information do I need?
Where am I going to find the evidence and information?
How am I going to obtain the evidence and information?
What am I going to do with it?
Key features:
Incorporates forensic guides for investigators that are at a crime scene including guidelines for completing forms (eg kit collection forms), checklists, descriptive images, examples, tables and figures, extracts and samples, forms, reports, registers and notices
Both theoretical and practical
Content
Chapter 1: Ethics and the role of the investigator in the investigation of crime 
Chapter 2: Characteristics of criminal and forensic investigation
Chapter 3: The important principles in criminal investigation
Chapter 4: The role of the crime scene in the investigation of crime 
Chapter 5: Evidence 
Chapter 6: Documentation of a crime scene and of the investigation of a case 
Chapter 7: Arrest and detention 
Chapter 8: Statements
Chapter 9: The case docket and testifying in court
ANNEXURES 
GLOSSARY
INDEX
Interest / Benefit to
Police officials & detectives
Law enforcement officers
Justice colleges
Universities and private institutions running police basic legal training