The text also provides guidelines on preparing cases for presentation to the prosecutor, a grand jury, or a court and discusses the latest laboratory services, sources of investigative information, and scientific techniques available to assist the criminal investigator. The author has 30 years of experience in municipal and military criminal investigation and has also taught criminal investigation for more than 20 years. Individual chapters summarize the basic methods of investigation and detail the characteristics of investigators, effective notes and reports, interviewing techniques, and crime scene investigations. Further chapters explain the basic sections of a criminalistics laboratory, the use of police records, sources and methods of acquiring information, surveillance and undercover investigation, principles of interrogation, and written statements and confessions. Other sections provide guidelines for investigating specific types of property and violent crimes, as well as drug law offenses, terrorism, bombings, and hostage incidents. Photographs, charts, chapter discussion questions and lists of crucial terms, glossary, and index