NCJ Number
143892
Date Published
1993
Length
628 pages
Annotation
Directed to police officers, police recruits, experienced homicide investigators, criminal justice students, and police academy trainees, this volume details the principles and procedures of homicide investigations.
Abstract
The first eight chapters provide chronological explanations of all aspects of the initial investigation at the crime scene, starting with the initial notification to the procedural steps at the scene itself. The next 10 chapters focus on special procedures and techniques that must always be considered in a major crime investigation. Additional chapters provide guidance to police administrators on the composition and mission of the homicide investigative unit. Individual sections explain specific investigative duties, interview and interrogation of a suspect in custody, crime scene photographs and sketches, evidence collection and preservation, the estimation of the time of death, victim identification, modes of death, and the investigation of sex-related homicides. Further sections focus on media relations, the autopsy, suspect identification, and criminal personality profiling. Checklists, forms, photographs, illustrations, chapter reference lists, glossary, and index