Decision Making in Police Enquiries and Critical Incidents What Really Works? /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Roycroft, Mark (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Roach, Jason (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Police.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Industrial sociology.; Crime prevention.; Industrial psychology.; Policing.; Crime and Society.; Sociology of Work.; Crime Prevention.; Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

This book examines how the police make decisions in real life situations, particularly in major enquiries. The two key themes explored are real-time decision making along with what "works" in such circumstances. It aims to set out how successful decisions are arrived at in a variety of dif...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction; Mark Roycroft
• 2. History of Investigative decision making from public inquires and reviews; Dr Mark Roycroft
• 3. The decision making and identification of solving factors from 166 murder cases; Dr Mark Roycroft
• 4. Innate reasoning and critical incident decision-making; Prof Robin Bryant
• 5. How a major incident Room operates and the management of critical incidents; ex DCI Harland N Yorks Police
• 6. "The Making of an expert detective" Decision making in Norway and UK European perspective; Ivar Fashing, Superintendent and Professor Norwegian Police University
• 7. The task is greater than the title: Professionalising the role of the Senior Investigating Officer in Homicide Investigations; Dr Adrian West and Dr Declan Donnelly
• 8. The retrospective detective. Cognitive bias and the cold case investigation; Dr Jason Roach
• 9. Conclusions; Dr Mark Roycroft.