Concept information
Preferred term
criminal investigation
Definition
- Criminal investigations are conducted at all government levels in the United States—by federal and military agencies, by state agencies, and by county and municipal agencies. The types of investigations conducted by these agencies are defined by specified legal and geographic jurisdictional responsibilities. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Criminal Investigation]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- ballistics
- criminalistics
- criminal justice practitioners
- cyberstings
- false confessions
- false memory syndrome
- FBI
- fbi top 10 most wanted list
- fingerprint detection techniques
- fingerprinting
- forensics
- forensic science
- geographic profiling
- interview and interrogation
- investigative interviewing
- predicting violent behavior
- prevention of crime and violent behavior
- profiling
- signature killers
- threat assessment
- Uniform Crime Reports
- ViCLAS
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/criminal_investigation
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