Martin Innes

Investigating Murder

Detective Work and the Police Response to Criminal Homicide

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigating Murder provides a unique insight into how police detectives investigate and solve murders. Based upon observation of murder squads at work, interviews with detectives and detailed analysis of police case files, it provides an original and innovative account of the practices and processes involved in the investigation of serious violent crimes, as well as some of the problems that are often encountered in the conduct of this work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780199259427
• ISBN-10: 0199259429
• Artikelnr.: 22359560

Autorenporträt

Martin Innes was awarded his PhD in 1999 by the London School of Economics. In the same year he was appointed to a lectureship in sociology at the University of Surrey, where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Sociology of Deviance and Social Control; Social Theory and Social Policy. His research focuses upon issues of policing and social control, crime investigation, and communication and social theory

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Setting the Scene
1: Detective Work
2: Murder
3: Law
4: The Social Organisation of Murder Squads
Part 2: Towards a Theory of Crime Investigation
5: Information Work
6: Investigative Technologies
7: Investigative Methodology
Part 3: The Process of the Investigation
8: Self-solvers
9: Whodunits
10: Murder Investigations In Extremis
Part 4: Conclusion
11: Crime Investigation and the Creation of Collective Memory