James W. Osterburg, Richard H. Ward, Larry S. Miller

Criminal Investigation (eBook, ePUB)

A Method for Reconstructing the Past

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A classic in the field, Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past, 8th Edition, presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a sound method for reconstructing a crime based on three major sources of information: people, physical evidence, and records.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429535338
• Artikelnr.: 56524042

Autorenporträt

James W. Osterburg was long involved in the investigation process, actively engaged in the functions of teaching, research, and public service. For 20 years, he served the New York City Police Department (NYPD), where he assisted in the investigation of thousands of crimes. He testified in municipal, state, and federal courts on numerous occasions, and taught at the NYPD Police Academy. His academic affiliations include professorships at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Indiana University; the University of California, Berkeley; the Baruch School of Public Administration at the City University of New York; and Sam Houston State University (as Beto Professor of Criminal Justice). He is the author of several books on criminalistics and scientific investigation. Osterburg was a Fellow and past president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) and was recipient of the 2010 Paul L. Kirk Award, the highest award conferred by the AAFS Criminalistics Section.

Richard H. Ward was, at the time of his death, Associate Vice President for Research and Special Programs at the University of New Haven. A former New York City Police Department (NYPD) Detective, Ward was an internationally recognized expert on issues related to criminal investigation, terrorism, and global crime. He earned a master's degree from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a Ph.D. in criminology from the University of California, Berkeley. He began teaching at John Jay in 1970, eventually moving into administration, and in 1977, joined the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), where he was Vice Chancellor of administration for 16 years, then founder and Executive Director of UIC's Office of International Criminal Justice. From 2008 to 2012, he served as Dean of the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences at the University of New Haven. Ward visited more than 50 countries and taught in China, Malaysia, Thailand, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.

Larry S. Miller is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology and Director of the Forensic Document Examination graduate program at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). He received his Bachelor of Science from ETSU, a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from Eastern Kentucky University, and his Ph.D. in Public Health & Safety with collaterals in Forensic Anthropology and Criminology from The University of Tennessee. Miller, who has worked as a police officer for two state police agencies in Tennessee and Kentucky, criminal investigator and Chief of Detectives with the Washington County (TN) Sheriff's Office, crime scene investigator with the Sullivan County (TN) Sheriff's Office, and Director of the Tennessee Regional Crime Laboratory at Walters State Community College (TN), teaches in the areas of law enforcement and forensic science and is the author of several books on topics including forensic document examination, criminal investigation, criminal justice report writing, police photography, and more. He serves on the board of the National Forensic Academy.