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Book ReviewsBook Review By: Jim Silvania
Where was this text thirty years ago when I needed it most. I could have handed a copy to all of the uninvited political dignitaries and voyeurs who were contaminating my crime scene and yelled: “ Warren Sonne said, “ Get the hell out of my crime scene.” For years the standard of the criminal investigative profession (law enforcement) was Charles E. O’Hara’s Fundamentals of Criminal Investigation. Am I showing my age? The new standard should become Criminal Investigation for the Professional Investigator. It’s that good. It needs to be required reading for every law enforcement officer in America and beyond. It is a great fundamental text which guides those who want to expand their education of criminal matters to the correct text. A bibliography would have made this easier but it’s there in the footnotes and hell we’re investigators aren’t we. We’ll find it. I haven’t read every investigative book but this is the first time I’ve seen a chapter devoted to Criminal Defense Investigators in a basic law enforcement text. Maybe if the police knew someone was following up after them they wouldn’t make so many mistakes. They won’t after reading this text. The standard text for the civil side of the profession (PIs) was always Techniques of Legal Investigation by the late Anthony M. Golec. If Warren’s next in a series, Civil Investigations for the Professional Investigator, is as good as this text, then it also should become the standard for this side of the industry. No PI’s library should be with out Sonne ‘s new series or Frank Ritter’s Successful Personal Injury Investigation. |
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