Criminal Investigation Process

Criminal Investigation has been an important part of police work for more years than anyone can remember. It’s the reason that so many cops are able to get so many things done and solve thousands of cases because without criminal investigation, there is no police work. There are some people who wish to compare the process of today’s criminal investigation to the theories composed in the past. Jeremiah J. Rayner did a dissertation that explains the process of criminal investigation and how it can be compared to the past.

The purpose of the study is to re-evaluate the process of criminal investigation so we can understand the reasoning behind it. In the past, there was no real research to help aid people and to give them a better understanding

The researchers used an online survey, which the participants were able to leave the survey if they ever felt the need to. The target of these surveys were law enforcement officers who may have done the things that were listed in the paper. There was no sample size that I could see was present. Yet from the surveys that were done, the collective results were separated into six different parts: Organization, Patrol Officers, Investigative Management, Investigative Support and Investigative Effectiveness. In the section Organization, it is shown how organized agencies are with their task forces and have created any new ones to with future problems, like terrorism. “The agencies’ responses indicated that 78% (35) of these anti-terrorism task forces had been established after September 2001”(Rayner 59). The survey had asked agencies if they had a “anti-terrorism task force” before the tragedy that was September 11, 2001. Multiple agencies only created the force after the incident had happened, so that showed that some agencies were not prepared. Another thing in the organization section is that a lot of agencies made their task forces to only solve crime, which is different than the original researchers in 2001’s findings. “Whereas in Horvath and colleague’s (2001) research, respondents indicated agencies’ primary reason for their organization of these units was “to make more

The point of this paper is to give people a better understanding of what is happening in the criminal investigation world. There was only two major research studies that discussed what really happens during this process. Researchers today wanted to compare their findings from the surveys conducted, in which the participants were pulled from different parts in the criminal justice field, to see if they compared to the results from the past and wanted to know if the criminal investigation process was the same throughout the years or if things were completely different. They also wanted to give people outside the criminal justice world a chance to understand what is going on and how law enforcement is dealing with