How to Catch a Criminal: What Detectives Won't Tell You

«To catch a criminal, you need to think like a criminal» — a beautiful myth from detective stories or a harsh reality of investigations? In real investigations, it's not enough to study the evidence left at the crime scene. The most important traces are invisible — these are thoughts, hidden motives, plans, and other people's memories. It is the search for and decoding of these that forensic tactics deal with. Before you is an illustrated guide by Doctor of Law D. V. Voronkov, author of the crimlib.info project group. Under one cover, more than 200 scientific and historical facts are gathered about how crimes were solved in the past and what methods 21st-century detectives use. From this book, you will learn: — how to legally and ethically obtain maximum information from suspects, defendants, witnesses, and victims; — what profiling is and how it helps to create an accurate psychological portrait of a criminal; — how unexpected scientific theories from various fields come to aid investigations; — what typical mistakes and «small details» are most often used to catch even the most cunning offenders. The publication is aimed at a wide audience — students, teachers, and anyone interested in forensics.