Key Terms and Concepts for Investigation provides students and practitioners with a compilation of concise, accurate articles on major topics pertaining to criminal, private, and military investigations.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Contributor Biographies
• A
• Affidavit
• Agency Staffing
• Aggravated Assault
• Arrest Procedures
• Arson Investigation
• Audio Recordings
• B
• Background Investigation
• Battery
• Bill of Rights
• Blood Alcohol Test
• Bribery
• Burglary: Locks
• C
• Case Management
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• Chain of Custody
• Child Custody Surveillance
• Civil Law
• Civil Process
• Client Relationships
• Competitive Intelligence
• Computer Forensic Investigation
• Computer Forensics
• Confidentiality
• Consumer Reporting Agency
• Contraband
• Controlled Substances
• Corpus Delicti
• Cost Management
• Court Procedures
• Crime Categories
• Crime Prevention Assumptions
• Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
• Crime Scene Photography
• Crime Scene Searching
• Criminal Defense Investigation
• Criminal Defense Investigation Specialties
• Criminal Intelligence
• Criminal Intent
• Criminal Justice System
• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Critical National Infrastructure
• Cross-Examination
• Cyberstalking
• Cyberterrorism
• D
• Data Mining
• Database Searching
• Deadly Force
• Defenses to Crime
• Deposition
• Diplomatic Security Service
• Discovery
• Discrimination
• Divorce and Child Custody
• DNA Analysis
• DNA Profiling
• Document Examination
• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
• Drug Investigation: Classes and Types
• Drug Recognition
• Drug Testing
• Due Diligence
• E
• Eavesdropping
• Embezzlement
• Ethical Standards
• Evidence Types
• Executive Protection
• Expert Witness Testimony
• F
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: Adverse Action
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: Civil Liability
• False Arrest and Unlawful Detention
• FBI Laboratory Services
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Federal Offenses
• Felonies and Misdemeanors
• Fifth Amendment
• Fingerprint Identification
• Fingerprints: Collecting Latent Prints
• Firearms Examinations
• Forensic Photography: A Resource for Investigators
• Forensic Testing
• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
• Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine
• G
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
• H
• Hidden Assets Investigation
• Homeland Security
• I
• Identity Theft
• Industrial Espionage
• Informants
• Information Theft
• Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Intelligence Collection
• Intelligence Cycle
• International Child Abduction
• Interrogation
• Interrogation: Nine Steps of the Reid Technique
• Interrogation: Written Statement
• Interviewing: The Basics
• Interviewing: The Behavior Analysis Interview and Behavior Symptom Analysis
• Interviewing: Human Factors
• Invasion of Privacy
• Investigative Consumer Report
• J
• Justice System
• K
• Kickbacks
• Kinesics
• L
• Law Sources
• Locard's Exchange Principle
• Loss Prevention through Denial of Opportunity
• M
• Miranda Warning
• Missing and Unidentified Persons
• Money Laundering
• N
• National Name Check Program
• Nature of Terrorism
• Negligence
• Note Taking
• O
• Office and Personnel Administration
• P
• Parties to Crime
• Patriot Act
• Physical Evidence
• Plain View Doctrine
• Polygraph Testing
• Polygraph Testing Law
• Pre-Employment Screening
• Preliminary Offenses
• Pretexting
• Psychological Profiling
• Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
• R
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO)
• Rape
• Report Types
• Report Writing
• Restraining Order
• Retail Theft Prevention
• Risk Analysis
• Robbery
• Role of Law Enforcement
• Rules of Evidence
• S
• Search and Seizure: Fourth Amendment Rights
• Shoplifting
• Skip Tracing
• Smart Phone: The Investigator's Tool Box
• Social Media Investigations and Cybervetting
• Sources of Law
• State Courts: Practices and Procedures
• Stalking
• Surveillance
• Surveillance Operations
• Surveillance Techniques
• T
• Tactics of Terrorists
• Technical Surveillance Countermeasures
• Terrorism: Chemical and Biological Weapons
• Terrorism: Explosive and Radiological Weapons
• Terrorist Group Motives
• Terrorist Methods
• Testifying
• Threat Elements in Loss Prevention
• Toolmark Examination
• Torts
• Trial Evidence
• U
• U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)
• U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID)
• U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)
• U.S. Department of Defense Criminal Investigative Service
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Investigations
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• U.S. Marshals Service
• U.S. Navy Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS)
• U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS)
• U.S. Secret Service (USSS)
• Undercover Operations
• Uniform Crime Reporting
• Unpaid Fees
• V
• Voice Stress Analysis
• Vulnerability Assessment in Loss Prevention
• W
• Warrantless Beeper
• Warrantless Searches
• Weapons Safety and Nomenclature
• White-Collar Crime
• Workers’ Compensation Fraud
• Workplace Violence
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
• Department of Veterans Affairs Criminal Investigation Division
• Drug Enforcement Administration Offices
• Federal Bureau of Investigation Field Offices
• Federal Investigative Agencies
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement Offices
• Private Investigator State Licensing Boards
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Law Enforcement Offices
• U.S. Marshals Service
• U.S. Secret Service Offices