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About Watching the Detectives

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Rooted in the author's 25 years of experience in law enforcement, Watching the Detectives: A Real World Study of Criminal Investigations offers a fresh, illuminating, and highly practical approach to the study of the investigative process.

The book covers entry into the field of detective work and what that work entails. Specific chapters are devoted to search and seizure, interviews and interrogations, sexual assault investigations, hearings and trials, and how and when law enforcement investigates its own. Every chapter includes a fascinating glimpse into police work through first-person accounts of real cases and experiences. Learning targets help students read with focus and purpose. Brief self-assessments at the end of each chapter allow students to measure what they have learned.

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