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Evidence, Criminal

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• Criminal evidence

• Crime's Nemesis (New York: Macmillan, 1936), by Luke S. May (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'Enquête Criminelle et les Méthodes Scientifiques (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, 1920), by Edmond Locard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Beiträge zur Lehre vom Beweis im Strafprozess (in German; Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot, 1883), by Julius Glaser
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Barbara J. Shapiro (HTML at UC Press)

• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)

• The Third Degree: A Detailed and Appalling Exposé of Police Brutality (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1930), by Emanuel Henry Lavine (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Advancing Justice Through DNA Technology Act of 2003: Report (Rept. 108-321 Part 1; no further parts known to be published; 2003), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary
  • text and PDF at congress.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fiber Evidence and the Wayne Williams Trial (reprinted from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 1984), by Harold A. Deadman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Justice Harlan Dissents! A Statement (1961), by Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government and John M. Harlan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dark Side: Secret Origins of Evidence in US Criminal Cases (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2018), by Sarah St. Vincent (HTML and PDF at hrw.org)

• Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations (second edition, 2002), by United States Department of Justice (HTML at cybercrime.gov)

• "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Barbara J. Shapiro (HTML at UC Press)

• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (updated and expanded edition; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007), by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Eva Landau (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Warrantless Wiretapping: Hearings Before the Subcommitee on Administrative Practive and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Second Congress, Second Session, on Practices and Procedures of the Department of Justice for Warrantless Wiretapping and Other Electronic Surveillance, June 29, 1972. (Washington: GPO, 1973), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Summary of Task Force Report on Inquiry into CIA-Related Electronic Surveillance Activities Disclosed in Rockefeller Commission Report (redacted draft; originally top secret; 1977), contrib. by George W. Calhoun and United States Department of Justice (PDF at gwu.edu)
• Report on Inquiry into CIA-Related Electronic Surveillance Activities (redacted copy; originally top secret; 1976), by United States Department of Justice (PDF at documentcloud.org)

• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jew Detective: or, The Beautiful Convict (Beadle's New York Dime Library #662; New York: Beadle and Adams, 1891), by Prentiss Ingraham (mlutiple foramts at niu.edu)

• Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Ervand Abrahamian (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Privacy and Human Rights, by Privacy International and Electronic Privacy Information Center (full serial archives)

• Surveillance and Society (2002-) (full serial archives)

• Surveillance and Society (2002-) (full serial archives)

• Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design (1998), by Electronic Frontier Foundation (HTML at cryptome.org and other sites)

• L'Expertise en Écritures: Étude Théorique et Pratique (in French; 1907), by Pierre Humbert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Barbara J. Shapiro (HTML at UC Press)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• 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)

• The Lie Behind the Lie Detector (fourth digital edition, c2005), by George W. Maschke and Gino J. Scalabrini (PDF with commentary at antipolygraph.org)

• Wetboeken en Reglementen voor de Kolonie Curaçao (in Dutch; 's Gravenhage, 1868), by Curaçao (page images at HathiTrust)

• Human Rights, Serious Crime, and Criminal Procedure (Hamlyn Lectures, #53; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2002), by Andrew Ashworth (PDF in the UK)
• The Proof of Guilt: A Study of the English Criminal Trial (Hamlyn Lectures, #7; London: Stevens and Sons, 1955), by Glanville Williams (PDF in the UK)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.