Bücher der Reihe Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations

Describes the methods used worldwide to recover and identify footwear impressions from the scene of a crime. This book includes information on recovery procedures and materials such as lifting, photography and casting; chemical enhancement; updated information about footwear manufacturing; and footwear sizing.

Offers insight into how people behave during interviews, what their behaviors reveal, and why they exhibit those mannerisms. This book offers a discussion of the phenomenon of false confessions, including contributing factors and avoiding pitfalls. It also includes a chapter addressing the basic concepts of interview and interrogation.

What makes a person confess to a crime he did not commit? Was he coerced? Is he trying to protect someone else? This book focuses on why false confessions exist and how to avoid them. It discusses telephone interviewing, false confessions, field interviewing, sexual harassment interviewing, and confronting the alleged harrasser.

Offers models, protocols, and procedures to handle the highly charged fall-out from officer involved shootings. This book presents recommendations for post-incident support and the emotional aspect of these traumatic events, including the potential for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder suffered by the officer.

Written by former Commanding Officer of the Manhattan Special Victims Squad Thomas P. Carney, this volume provides a day-to-day guide for investigating sex crimes.

This latest edition addresses rape and sexual assaults from all clinical, pathological, medical, and legal aspects. The book focuses on the victim and covers contemporary issues in sexual violence, investigative aspects of rape and sexual assault, offender fantasy, the personality of the offender, collection of evidence, medical examinations, and treatment, as well as trial preparation issues. Special topics include pedophiles, female and juvenile offenders, drug-facilitated rape, sexual sadism, elder abuse, and sexual assault within the military.

Addresses various aspects of the analysis and reconstruction of the events surrounding a crime. Beginning with established protocols for crime scene processing, this book outlines the authors' unique methodology for event analysis.