Criminal investigation and detection

'With well-rounded characters, a terrific sense of time and place and masterful plotting, this solid police procedural is a 24-carat holiday read' Guardian'A fast-moving thriller .

A practicing engineer's inclusive review of communication systems based on shared-bus and shared-memory switch/router architectures This book delves into the inner workings of router and switch design in a comprehensive manner that is accessible to a broad audience.

Real-World Crime Scene Investigation: A Step-by-Step Procedure Manual is designed as a field guide providing instruction on how to document a crime scene, including sketching, mapping, searching, collecting, and preserving physical evidence.

Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism.

Most clinicians seek guidelines and indicators as to the effectiveness of their interventions with clients.

This book goes beyond other police leadership books to teach practitioners how to think about policing in a structured way that synthesizes criminological theory, statistics, research design, applied research, and what works and what doesn't in policing into Mental Models.

This concise guide to UMTS provides a balanced, system-level approach invaluable to engineers, project managers and marketing executives.

Excited about the new Google phone?

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the presumption of innocence from both a practical and theoretical point of view.

This robust, dynamic, and international field has grown to include interdisciplinary research, continually improving methodology, and globalization of training.

Officer-Involved Shootings and Use of Force: Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition continues to provide sound and sober models, protocols, and procedures to handle the highly charged fall-out from officer involved shootings.

Scientists have long been looking for alternative methods for the cleaning of historical and cultural museum objects as conventional methods often fail to completely remove surface films, leaving contamination and surface residues behind.

All neuropsychologists need to know how to produce evidence-based reports.

Justice, Crime, and Ethics, a leading textbook in criminal justice programs, examines ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field.

In the wake of the Daubert ruling, the use of forensic toolmark evidence in court has been problematic, in that the conclusions of forensic scientists as to toolmark origin often lack scientifically sound statistical proof.

This authoritative Handbook provides a clear and detailed introduction to cyber crime, offering you an effective operational guide to the complexities and challenges of investigating cyber-related crimes.

Forensic Toxicology, the latest release in the Advanced Forensic Science Series that grew out of recommendations from the 2009 NAS Report, Strengthening Forensic Science: A Path Forward will serve as a graduate level text for those studying and teaching forensic toxicology.

Renowned for being THE definitive resource for homicide investigators, Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques details the recognized protocols used by investigative divisions of major police departments throughout the world.

In cases where minimal or no physical evidence exists, behavioral evidence may be all that investigators have available to help them focus the investigation.

This book discusses new applications of technologies that have been or could be successfully employed to estimate the age of fingermarks.

Do you ever obsess about your body?

Public Corruption in the United States provides a comprehensive view of public corruption, including discussion on its types, methods, trends, challenges, and overall impact.

There have been significant changes in public attitudes towards surveillance in the last few years as a consequence of the Snowden disclosures and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

This ground-breaking book offers a practitioner-oriented overview of professional standards in all aspects of policing.

Headlines of public service corruption scandals are painful reminders of the need for continuing education in the subjects of ethics and integrity.

Forensic psychology plays an increasingly important role in criminal investigations and legal decision-making.

Engineering Standards for Forensic Application presents the technologies and law precedents for the application of engineering standards to forensic opinions, discussing Fundamentals, Disciplines, Engineering Standards, The Basics and the Future of Forensics.

'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking.

Shooting Incident Reconstruction, Third Edition, offers a thorough explanation of matters from simple to complex to help the reader understand the factors surrounding ballistics, trajectory, and shooting scenes.

This book details several important medicinal plants, their occurrence, plant compounds and their chemical structures, and pharmacological properties against various human diseases.

Understanding Police Operational Performance provides a roadmap for police agencies to implement performance-improvement strategies that work.

An innovative exploration of China''s modern transformation through the history of homicide investigation and forensic science in Republican Beijing.

Transhumanism, Artificial Intelligence, the Cloud, Robotics, Electromagnetic Fields, Intelligence Communities, Rail Transportation, Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)-all this and more is discussed in Cyber Crime Investigator's Field Guide, Third Edition.

Volunteer Police, Choosing to Serve provides an in-depth comparison between volunteer policing in the United States and in the United Kingdom, and explores the shared past and similar-yet sometimes divergent-evolution of special constables, auxiliaries, and reserves.

Forensic science has become a mainstay of popular culture on television, in movies, books, and podcasts.

Most failure or accident investigations begin at the end of the story: after the explosion, after the fire has been extinguished, or after the collapse.

Cyberattacks on enterprises, government institutions, and individuals are exponentially growing.

Now in its second edition, Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation is the most comprehensive resource for DNA casework available today.

Once confined to four-year colleges and graduate schools, forensic science classes can now be found in local high schools as well as in two-year community colleges.

Accessible and portable, this Handbook provides all counter-terrorism practitioners with an authoritative, operational guide to anti-terrorism legislation.

Examining the thematic intersection of law, technology and violence, this book explores cyber attacks against states and current international law on the use of force.

This book covers the basic science and neurobiology of violence and integrates this with clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of forensic psychiatry.

Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies is the first systematic and rigorous collection of effective problem-oriented policing projects.

Forensic Science Laboratory Benchmarking: The FORESIGHT Manual takes a step-by-step instructional approach to utilizing FORESIGHT data, detailing how labs can participate in the process to improve efficiencies.

The wave of data breaches raises two pressing questions: Why don't we defend our networks better?

The study of fire debris analysis is vital to the function of all fire investigations, and, as such, Fire Debris Analysis is an essential resource for fire investigators.

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The market for illicit drugs is expanding inexorably around the world.

Policing in the 21st century is becoming increasingly complicated as economic, political, social, and legal circumstances continue to compel police organizations to evolve.

This book addresses how to estimate substance use and thereby evaluate policies intended to reduce the harms caused by drugs and other substances.