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.
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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
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The body of the victim was discovered on a winter morning, on a remote piece of land near to a small river. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
compliance drift, major crime enquiries, detective culture, diachronic tracking, whodunit investigations, major incident room, homicide investigation work, major crime investigations, background enquiries, enquiry team, investigative system, whodunit murders, investigative technologies, custodial interview, police murder investigations, investigative actions, investigative methodology, murder enquiries, investigative response, suspect profile, fatal interaction, police enquiries, senior investigating officer, suspect population, investigative technology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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compliance drift, major crime enquiries, detective culture, diachronic tracking, whodunit investigations, major incident room, homicide investigation work, major crime investigations, background enquiries, enquiry team, investigative system, whodunit murders, investigative technologies, custodial interview, police murder investigations, investigative actions, investigative methodology, murder enquiries, investigative response, suspect profile, fatal interaction, police enquiries, senior investigating officer, suspect population, investigative technology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Criminal Justice by Andrew Sanders in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford Handbooks) by Mike Maguire in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds by Ken Plummer in Back Matter
- Butterworth's Police Law by Jack English in Back Matter
- An Inside Job: Policing and Police Culture in Britain by Malcolm Young in Back Matter
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- Criminal Visions by Paul Mason in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 68
- The Police and Social Conflict (Contemporary Issues in Public Policy) by Nigel Fielding in Back Matter
- Understanding Social Control: Crime and Social Order in Late Modernity (Crime and Justice) by Martin Innes in Back Matter
- CCTV and Policing: Public Area Surveillance and Police Practices in Britain (Clarendon Studies in Criminology) by Benjamin J. Goold in Front Matter
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