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Criminal Investigation, 8/e

Charles R. Swanson, University of Georgia
Neil C. Chamelin, Assistant State Attorney, Second Judicial Circuit
Leonard Territo, University of South Florida- Tampa

The Investigator and the Legal System

Chapter Objectives

1) Distinguish between detention, arrest, and charging.

2) Explain the benefit of a police officer’s making an arrest under the authority of a warrant.

3) Define and describe probable cause.

4) Discuss the risk factors involved in making a premature arrest.

5) Briefly outline the steps in a trial process.

6) Assess the importance of a criminal investigator’s knowing the rules of evidence.

7) Describe the hearsay rule and the philosophy under which the exception to this rule have evolved.

8) Explain the reason for the existence of evidentiary privileges.

9) Discuss the role of an investigator as a witness in a criminal trial.

10) Explain the purpose of cross-examination.

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