Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 3: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 3, 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 3 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 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 3 (of 3) consists of Part 4 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 3
• Author credits: Hans Gross
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 12:33:47

Catalogue topics

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

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - Bodily Injuries and Poisoning i-iii — 36:04
2. 02 - Bodily Injuries and Poisoning iv, part 1 — 25:45
3. 03 - Bodily Injuries and Poisoning iv, part 2 — 26:42
4. 04 - Bodily Injuries and Poisoning v — 16:05
5. 05 - Bodily Injuries and Poisoning vi-vii — 19:17
6. 06 - Bodily Injuries and Poisoning viii — 31:32
7. 07 - Bodily Injuries and Poisoning ix — 9:48
8. 08 - Theft i-ii — 25:36
9. 09 - Theft iii-iv — 13:46
10. 10 - Theft v, part 1 — 29:03
11. 11 - Theft v, part 2 — 36:38
12. 12 - Theft vi — 19:37
13. 13 - Theft vi.A.1 — 34:42
14. 14 - Theft vi.A.2 — 20:04
15. 15 - Theft vi.A.3.a — 22:36
16. 16 - Theft vi.A.3.b-A.4 — 28:08
17. 17 - Theft vi.B-D — 17:51
18. 18 - Theft vi.E-F — 12:14
19. 19 - Theft vii — 28:22
20. 20 - Cheating and Fraud i-ii.A — 18:35
21. 21 - Cheating and Fraud ii.B — 25:16
22. 22 - Cheating and Fraud iii.A — 29:28
23. 23 - Cheating and Fraud iii.B — 11:01
24. 24 - Cheating and Fraud iv.A.1 — 23:52

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