Governmental investigations
Here are entered works on investigations initiated by the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of the government and usually conducted by ad hoc or permanent bodies for the purpose of investigating some particular problem of public interest.
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Broader terms:- Investigations
- Justice, Administration of
- Legislation
- Legislative bodies -- Committees
- Legislative oversight
- Public administration
- Governmental investigations -- Connecticut
- Governmental investigations -- Illinois
- Governmental investigations -- United States
- Legislative hearings
- Truth commissions
- Commissions of inquiry
- Executive investigations
- Governmental investigations -- Law and legislation
- Government investigations
- Investigations, Governmental
- Judicial investigations
- Legislative investigations
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Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Report of the Office of the Child Advocate (Hartford, CT: State of Connecticut, 2014), by Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate (PDF at ct.gov)
- Chicago Police Investigations: Three Reports (aka Police in America, a 1971 compilation of reports from 1898-1912) (PDF files at Northwestern)
- Providing Special Investigative Authorities for the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Report Together with Minority and Dissenting Views (to Accompany H. Res. 167) (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States House Committee on Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
- Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Election (2 redacted volumes in 1; 2019), by Robert S. Mueller, ed. by William Pelham Barr (PDF at govinfo.gov)
- The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew (hearing before the committee, August 1, 2007; Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
- Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Covert Operation: Report of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session (4 volumes, first labeled "draft report", others labeled exhibit appendixes; Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c): Communication From Kenneth W. Starr, Independent Counsel, Transmitting a Referral to the United States House of Representatives Filed in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, section 595(c) (the Starr Report on Clinton and Lewinsky, with appendices), by Kenneth Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
- Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (Washington: GPO, 2022), by United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (PDF and text at govinfo.gov)
- Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Robert P. Newman (HTML at UC Press)
- Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (the McCarthy hearing transcripts, 1953-1954 (5 volumes plus an index); made public in 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ed. by Donald A. Ritchie, Beth Bolling, and Diane B. Boyle, contrib. by Joseph McCarthy
- Annual Report, by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (partial serial archives)
- Silas Timberman (New York: Blue Heron Press, 1954), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)
- Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (with supporting materials; 2015), by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (PDF files at trc.ca)
- Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)
- Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)
- Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Aircraft accidents -- Investigation -- Decision making- Bayesian Methods in the Search for MH370 (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2016), by Samuel Davey, Neil Gordon, Ian Holland, Mark Rutten, and Jason Williams (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)
- Safety in the Skies: Personnel and Parties in NTSB Aviation Accident Investigations, by Cynthia C. Lebow, Liam P. Sarsfield, William L. Stanley, Emile Ettedgui, and Garth Henning (PDF at rand.org)
- The Operation Paget Inquiry Report Into the Allegation of Conspiracy to Murder Diana, Princess of Wales and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (2006), by Great Britain Metropolitan Police Service (PDF at the BBC)
- Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2004), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF at ohchr.org)
- Crime's Nemesis (New York: Macmillan, 1936), by Luke S. May (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Man Hunters (New York: J. H. Sears and Co., c1926), by Melville Davisson Post, illust. by William D. I. Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Blue Buckle (New York: McBride, Nast and Co., 1914), by William Hamilton Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Darrow Enigma, by Melvin L. Severy (Gutenberg text)
- L'Enquête Criminelle et les Méthodes Scientifiques (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, 1920), by Edmond Locard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Guide to Criminal Investigations (with sample case materials and checklists; Washington: Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1979), by Steven T. Kernes and Lowell L. Kuehn (page images at HathiTrust)
- FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, ed. by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (partial serial archives)
- The Illustrated Police News (partial serial archives)
- Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward (2009), by National Research Council Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community (multiple formats at NAP)
- Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods (2016), by President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (U.S.) (PDF at whitehouse.gov)
- Genetic Witness: Forensic Uses of DNA Tests (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- The Detective and the Somnambulist; The Murderer and the Fortune-Teller (Toronto: Belford Bros., 1877), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Somnambulist and the Detective; The Murderer and the Fortune Teller (New York: G. W. Dillingham, c1903), by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis (fifth edition, 2010), by Kenneth V. Lanning (PDF at missingkids.org)
- Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis (third edition, 1992), by Kenneth V. Lanning (PDF at ccoso.org)
- Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Christopher P. Wilson (PDF at Ohio State)
- Crime's Nemesis (New York: Macmillan, 1936), by Luke S. May (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cold Light on Spiritualistic "Phenomena": An Experiment With the Crewe Circle (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922), by Harry Price (page images at HathiTrust)
- Contact With the Other World: The Latest Evidence as to Communication With the Dead (New York: The Century Co., 1919), by James H. Hyslop
- Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons; London: Duckworth and Co., 1905), by J. Maxwell, trans. by L. I. Finch, contrib. by Charles Richet and Oliver Lodge
- Mysterious Psychic Forces: An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1909), by Camille Flammarion (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- On the Threshold of a New World of Thought: An Examination of the Phenomena of Spiritualism (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co., 1908), by William Barrett
- Phantasms of the Living (2 volumes; London: Rooms of the Society for Psychical Research; Trubner and Co., 1886), by Edmund Gurney, F. W. H. Myers, and Frank Podmore
- Phantasms of the Living (abridged edition; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: E. P Dutton and Co., 1918), by Edmund Gurney, F. W. H. Myers, and Frank Podmore, ed. by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick
- Psychical and Supernormal Phenomena: Their Observation and Experimentation; The Secrets of Life Unveiled (Chicago: The Marlowe Press, ca. 1917), by Paul Joire, trans. by Dudley Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Evidence for the Supernatural: A Critical Study Made with "Uncommon Sense" (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1911), by Ivor Lloyd Tuckett
- Psychical Research (New York: H. Holt; London: Williams and Norgate, ca. 1911), by William Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thought Transference: A Critical and Historical Review of the Evidence for Telepathy, With a Record of New Experiments, 1902-1903 (New York: Dodge Pub. Co., c1905), by Northcote Whitridge Thomas
- From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism, With Glossolalia (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1900), by Théodore Flournoy, trans. by Daniel B. Vermilye
- H. P. Blavatsky and the SPR: An Examination of the Hodgson Report of 1885, by Vernon Harrison (HTML at TUP)
- Phenomena of Materialisation: A Contribution To The Investigation Of Mediumistic Teleplastics (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1920), by A. von Schrenck-Notzing, trans. by E. E. Fournier d'Albe
More items available under broader and related terms at left.