Investigating Murder: Detective Work and the Police Response to Criminal Homicide

Author:   Martin Innes (, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Surrey)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199259427


Pages:   234
Publication Date:   06 February 2003
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Martin Innes (, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Surrey)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.501kg
ISBN:  

9780199259427


ISBN 10:   0199259429
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   06 February 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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... the first major research study of police homicide investigations ... provides a ground-breaking analysis of the work and methods of police detectives and a unique insight into how they investigate and solve murders. Chichester Observer Supplement


`... some revealing anecdotes from detectives.' Policing Today


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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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