Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation : A Multidisciplinary Approach

By Ann Wolbert Burgess

Book Overview

This multidisciplinary book brings into focus the five different groups involved in rape investigation: the police investigator, the examining nurse, the forensic scientist, the crisis counselor, and the prosecutor. It demonstrates how each must work together for more effective handling of all kinds of sexual assault crimes. Several chapters of this updated bestseller are rewritten by new contributors. New areas of interest include delayed reporting, false rape allegations, elder abuse, and mental retardation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0444011447
• ISBN13: 9780444011442
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: CRC Press LLC
• Length: 589 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

For those interested in Profiling/Criminal Investigation

This book is about as good as it gets. It covers all the bases an investigator should know about sexual assualt and gives you insite into the criminal mind. I also recommened the Crime Classification Manuel by Douglas, burgess, etc and Criminal Profiling 2nd edt. by Brent Turvey.

A bible for Forsenic examiners

As a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, I found this book to be filled with vital information. This book was required reading for a forensic's class, it was anything but.. I highly recommend this book to professionals in this field, but also anyone who is interested in true crime and studying behaviors.

Comprehensive Resource Book

Written by some of the leading professionals in the field, this book serves as an excellent resource book for any profesional working in the field of sexual assault investigations. It covers victimology, interview, crime scene considerations, SANE/SART programs and protocols. Criminal Investigative Analysis, Indirect Personality Assessment. Includes exhaustive references. This is the first book to buy to start your own referrence library. A must for the novice and experienced professional alike.

Excellent Tool for Investigation and Research

Hazelwood and Burgess provide the novice and the seasoned investigator with vital information about rape investigation and rapists.

Excellent Criminal Profiling/ Rape Investigation Text

Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation is probably the best multi-disciplinary rape investigator's text in existence, and certainly the most comprehensive psychological profiling guide that is available in print. It takes you from the myths and the physical evidence collection, up through the profiling process. It's also very heavily focused on victim's issues which are incredibly important, and very often overlooked or misunderstood. I use this book for our online serial rape investigation book, and I can think of no better student or professional text on non-homicidal serial crime. However, the information is useful for rape-homicides as well. Brent E. Turvey, MS, Criminal Profiler, Knowledge Solutions