Criminal Investigation: In Search of the Truth (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Van Allen, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0138000115 ISBN 13: 9780138000110

Publisher: Pearson Education Canada, 2011

Synopsis

Criminal Investigation, Second Edition has been updated to reflect current police practices and techniques in investigating and assessing crime scenes. This new edition contains more information on DNA and using technology in investigations, as well as a new case law decision dealing with sufficiency of investigative notes, new images dealing with forensic artistry, and an updated section on conducting a photographic lineup.

        Based on the author’s 32-years experience as a police officer and detective, Criminal Investigation represents personal experiences and lessons from some of the finest investigators, coroners, prosecutors, judges, and other justice professionals. Van Allen introduces the groundwork for beginning an investigation in great detail and provides real case examples from a national perspective.

About this title

About the Author

Bill Van Allen began his policing career with the Ontario Provincial Police in 1975.  Between 1997 and 2003, he served as the Project Director of the Campbell Report Implementation Project, responsible for the design and implementation of a Major Case Management System, now used by all Ontario police services and the Ontario Provincial Police in the investigation of predatory crimes such as sexual assaults and homicides. In January 2004 D.I. Van Allen retired from law enforcement after a thirty-one year career that encompassed eighteen years of full-time criminal investigative duties. During his career, he investigated over fifty homicides, suspicious deaths, suicides, robberies, arsons, sexual offences, drugs, break and enters and other major crimes.

 

Among other accomplishments, the author has received the Commissioner’s Citation for investigative excellence and is a recipient of the Police Exemplary Service Medal. The author is a life member of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police and a former member of the Harvard Associates in Police Science and the International Homicide Investigators Association. In 2003, Van Allen began teaching in the Justice and Public Safety Institute at Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology at the Barrie and Orillia campuses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education Canada
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0138000115
• ISBN 13: 9780138000110
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 480