The text can be used by students with no prior investigative knowledge or as a thorough reference source by law enforcement practitioners. Individual chapters explain the historical origins and basic concepts of criminal investigation, the phases of the criminal investigation, and note-taking and reports. Additional chapters focus on crime scene investigations; interviews of victims, witnesses, and suspects; and the use of human and documentary information sources; suspect identification; specialized investigations; the role of the investigator in court proceedings; and investigative and criminalistic concepts of the future. Other chapters explain investigative techniques for specific offenses, including burglary, robbery, homicide and aggravated assault, rape and other sex offenses, larceny, and drug law offenses. Photographs, illustrations, figures, lists of crucial terms and chapter objectives, chapter exercises, glossary, index, chapter notes, and 109 references