Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 2, credited to Hans Gross, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 2 by Hans Gross. (Translated by John Adam; John Collyer Adam.) Read in English by volunteer readers. Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and an examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on criminal investigation. This treatise covers everything from the qualities of a good investigating officer and how to utilize various experts, to tactics employed by criminals, how to analyze footprints and blood stains, and ways that criminals perpetrate crimes. Some of the remarks relate directly to India, such as disguising one's caste. Volume 2 (of 3) consists of Parts 2 and 3 of the 4 parts in the work. - Summary by TriciaG

Recording facts

• Recording title: Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 2
• Author credits: Hans Gross
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 14:19:26

Catalogue topics

• Detective
• Crime
• investigation
• forensics
• analysis
• evidence
• criminalistics

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 01 - Practices of Criminals i — 15:34
2. 02 - Practices of Criminals ii — 26:00
3. 03 - Practices of Criminals iii — 29:39
4. 04 - Practices of Criminals iv.A — 23:51
5. 05 - Practices of Criminals iv.B-C — 21:14
6. 06 - Practices of Criminals iv.D — 15:56
7. 07 - The Slang of Criminals — 9:31
8. 08 - Wandering Tribes i — 21:47
9. 09 - Wandering Tribes ii-iv — 29:14
10. 10 - Wandering Tribes v-viii — 23:14
11. 11 - Superstition i — 21:36
12. 12 - Superstition ii-iii — 39:06
13. 13 - Superstition iv-v — 31:28
14. 14 - Construction and Use of Weapons i.A — 14:29
15. 15 - Construction and Use of Weapons i.B.1.a — 32:23
16. 16 - Construction and Use of Weapons i.B.1.b — 28:21
17. 17 - Construction and Use of Weapons i.B.2-i.D — 25:35
18. 18 - Construction and Use of Weapons ii — 16:35
19. 19 - Drawing and Allied Arts i-ii — 15:04
20. 20 - Drawing and Allied Arts ii.A-B — 14:15
21. 21 - Drawing and Allied Arts ii.C-D — 14:26
22. 22 - Drawing and Allied Arts iii-v — 18:17
23. 23 - Drawing and Allied Arts vi-viii — 18:34
24. 24 - Footprints and other Impressions i-i.B.1 — 32:07

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