Download or read book Solving Crimes written by John E. Eck and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2-year study of criminal investigations of burglary and robbery in three jurisdictions points toward a series of management changes that can yield a more effective and efficient use of investigative resources. The study involved the analysis of investigative data from more than 320 robberies and 3,360 burglaries in the 3 jurisdictions of DeKalb County, Ga.; St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Wichita, Kan. For each case, crime reports and other official data were obtained, and patrol officers and detectives completed logs of the actions they took, the amount of time involved, and the information obtained. More than 5,500 activity logs were analyzed, and researchers observed officers and detectives in the performance of their field duties. Police detectives and patrol officers were found to contribute equally to the solution of robbery and burglary cases, but the investigations rarely took more than 4 hours spread over as many days. Three-fourths of the investigations were suspended within 2 days because of lack of leads. In the remainder of cases, the followup work by detectives was a major factor in determining whether suspects were identified and arrested. However, detectives and patrol officers alike rely too heavily on victims, who seldom provide information leading to an arrest, and make too little use of those sources of information most likely to lead to arrest -- witnesses, informants, their own colleagues, and police records. Detailed findings and policy implications are discussed.
Download or read book The Burglary written by Betty Medsger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation. It begins in 1971 in an America being split apart by the Vietnam War . . . A small group of activists—eight men and women—the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, inspired by Daniel Berrigan’s rebellious Catholic peace movement, set out to use a more active, but nonviolent, method of civil disobedience to provide hard evidence once and for all that the government was operating outside the laws of the land. The would-be burglars—nonpro’s—were ordinary people leading lives of purpose: a professor of religion and former freedom rider; a day-care director; a physicist; a cab driver; an antiwar activist, a lock picker; a graduate student haunted by members of her family lost to the Holocaust and the passivity of German civilians under Nazi rule. Betty Medsger's extraordinary book re-creates in resonant detail how this group of unknowing thieves, in their meticulous planning of the burglary, scouted out the low-security FBI building in a small town just west of Philadelphia, taking into consideration every possible factor, and how they planned the break-in for the night of the long-anticipated boxing match between Joe Frazier (war supporter and friend to President Nixon) and Muhammad Ali (convicted for refusing to serve in the military), knowing that all would be fixated on their televisions and radios. Medsger writes that the burglars removed all of the FBI files and, with the utmost deliberation, released them to various journalists and members of Congress, soon upending the public’s perception of the inviolate head of the Bureau and paving the way for the first overhaul of the FBI since Hoover became its director in 1924. And we see how the release of the FBI files to the press set the stage for the sensational release three months later, by Daniel Ellsberg, of the top-secret, seven-thousand-page Pentagon study on U.S. decision-making regarding the Vietnam War, which became known as the Pentagon Papers. At the heart of the heist—and the book—the contents of the FBI files revealing J. Edgar Hoover’s “secret counterintelligence program” COINTELPRO, set up in 1956 to investigate and disrupt dissident political groups in the United States in order “to enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles,” to make clear to all Americans that an FBI agent was “behind every mailbox,” a plan that would discredit, destabilize, and demoralize groups, many of them legal civil rights organizations and antiwar groups that Hoover found offensive—as well as black power groups, student activists, antidraft protestors, conscientious objectors. The author, the first reporter to receive the FBI files, began to cover this story during the three years she worked for The Washington Post and continued her investigation long after she'd left the paper, figuring out who the burglars were, and convincing them, after decades of silence, to come forward and tell their extraordinary story. The Burglary is an important and riveting book, a portrait of the potential power of nonviolent resistance and the destructive power of excessive government secrecy and spying.
Download or read book Practical Burglary Investigation written by Harry T. O'Reilly and published by Office of International Criminal Justice. This book was released on 1990 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Criminal Investigation Process written by Peter W. Greenwood and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Burglary written by Betty Medsger and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: An account of the 1971 break-in of the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists cites their roles in triggering major changes in the FBI and confirming that J. Edgar Hoover had run a personal shadow-FBI.
Download or read book Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation written by Barry A. J. Fisher and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest edition of Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation examines concepts, field-tested techniques and procedures, and technical information concerning crime scene investigation. It has been widely adopted by police academies, community colleges, and universities and is recommended for preparation for certification exams. Written in an easy-
Download or read book Managing Criminal Investigations written by Peter B. Bloch and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Criminal Investigation Fourth Edition written by Michael J. Palmiotto and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal investigators need broad knowledge of such topics as criminal law, criminal procedure, and investigative techniques. The best resource for these professionals will distill the needed information into one practical volume. Written in an accessible style, the fourth edition of Criminal Investigation maintains the same reader friendly approach that made its predecessors so popular with students, professionals, and practitioners. Beginning with an overview of the history of criminal investigation, the book explores current investigative practices and the legal issues that constrain or guide them. It discusses the wide range of sources of information available, including the internet, individuals, state and local sources, and federal agencies and commissions. Next, the book discusses other investigative techniques, including interviewing and interrogation, informants, surveillance, and undercover operations. A chapter on report writing provides explicit instructions on how to capture the most critical information needed in an investigation. Additional chapters cover the crime scene investigation and the crime laboratory. The remainder of the book delves into the specific investigative protocols for individual crimes, including sex offenses, homicide, mass and serial murder, assault and robbery, property crimes, cybercrime, and narcotics. Concluding chapters focus on the police/prosecutor relationship and investigative trends. Each chapter includes a summary, a list of key terms, and review questions so that readers can test their assimilation of the material. Clear and concise, this book is an essential resource for every criminal investigator’s toolbox.
Download or read book Investigation of Safe and Money Chest Burglary written by Donald G. Webb and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1975 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of the Assassination of President John F Kennedy written by United States. Warren Commission and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burglary written by Rob Mawby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burglary has all the credentials as the 'folk crime of the new millennium', and is regularly identified as one of the crimes most feared by the public. Victims are particularly affected by burglary, and burglary is generally at the centre of crime prevention and community safety strategies. This book provides an accessible, systematic account of burglary, focusing on the problem of crime in the first main part of the book, and on policy responses in the second. This book identifies the particularcharacteristics of burglary as a crime, drawing upon an extensive range of research in both the UK and elsewhere. It will be of interest to both students of criminology and criminal justice and practitioners in policing and crime prevention, and it looksat burglary in both national and international contexts. Professor Mawby is particularly well qualified to write on this subject, being involved in policy initiatives at local, national and international levels, as well as being editor of a leading crime prevention journal. accessible and authoritative account of one of the most important crimes and policy responses to itauthor ideally qualified in view of experience of local, national and international crime prevention initiatives.
Download or read book Patterns of Burglary written by Harry A. Scarr and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Solving Residential Burglary written by Timothy Coupe and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coping with Burglary written by R.V.G. Clarke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the papers given at a workshop organised by the Home Office (England and Wales) on the subject of residential burglary. This is a topic of much public concern, and I welcome the Home Office initiative in mounting the workshop. The contributors were all researchers and crim inologists who have made a special study of burglary, and their brief was to consider the implications of their work for policy. As a policeman, I find their work of particular interest and relevance at this time when police per formance, as traditionally measured by the clear-up rate, is not keeping pace with the increase in the numbers of burglaries coming to police attention. The finding that increases in burglary are more reflective of the public's reporting habits than of any significant rise in the actual level of burglary helps with perspective but offers little comfort to policemen. The 600/0 in crease in the official statistics since 1970 is accompanied by a proportionate increase in police work in visiting victims, searching scenes of crime, writing crime reports, and completing other documentation. In some forces the point has been reached where available detective time is so taken up by the volume of visits and reports that there is little remaining for actual in vestigation. But because of the random and opportunist nature of burglary, it cannot be said with any confidence that increasing investigative capacity would make a significant and lasting impact on the overall burglary figures.
Download or read book Patterns of Burglary written by Harry A. Scarr and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The B E Book written by Burt Rapp and published by Loompanics Unltd. This book was released on 1989 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical manual designed for the police officer in charge of a burglary investigation and civilians interested in reducing their vulnerability to theft. includes: -- Illustrated Breaking and Entering Techniques -- Getaways -- Safecracking -- Fencing Operations -- Gathering Evidence -- A Guide to the Best Tools and Equipment.
Download or read book Annual Report Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Justice written by United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
