Preliminary investigations do not necessarily yield enough information to prosecute a criminal case. Despite a thorough preliminary investigation, many cases require a follow - up investigation.
Write a three to four page paper in which you:
- Assemble a set of guidelines on conducting preliminary investigation for a criminal case.
- Propose one strategy that criminal investigators should take in order to conduct an efficient follow-up investigation. Provide a rationale to support your response.
- Select two major crimes and compare and contrast the key differences in reporting the two major crimes that you selected.
- Determine the three most important characteristics of an effective criminal investigator and discuss the importance of each characteristic you determined.
- Support or critique the argument that the criminal investigation process should maintain the balance regarding freedom of information through media outlets and privacy rights of alleged perpetrators of crime. Provide a rationale to support your response.
- Use at least two quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar type Websites do not qualify as academic resources.