Criminal investigation has a high profile in the media, and has attracted
widespread interest. Within the police it has been a rapidly developing field.
Important scientific and technological developments have had a considerable
impact on practice, and significant steps have been taken in the direction of
professionalizing the whole process of investigation. Within police studies
criminal investigation has now emerged as an important sub-discipline.
Criminal Investigation provides an authoritative and highly readable
introduction to the subject from somebody ideally placed to write about it,
focusing on how police practitioners carry out investigations. It looks
systematically at the purpose and role of criminal investigation; the legal,
policy and organizational