The discussion also covers typologies of offenses, offenders, and victims and crime prevention measures for specific crimes. Individual chapters discuss the crime scene and procedures associated with it, the gathering and handling of physical evidence, interview techniques, field notes and reporting, follow-up investigation, interrogation procedures, the crime laboratory, and behavioral analysis in criminal investigation. Additional chapters focus on investigative procedures related to injury and death investigation, sex offenses, robbery, burglary, larceny, vehicle thefts, computer crime, agricultural crimes, environmental crimes, arson, and drug abuse. Other chapters examine the decision to initiate prosecution, the rule of evidence, the investigator as witness, and the future of criminal investigation. Photographs, drawings, diagrams, forms, tables, chapter questions and reference notes, and index