Advanced Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Operations: Tradecraft Methods, Practices, Tactics, and Techniques

Advanced Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Operations

Tradecraft Methods, Practices, Tactics, and Techniques

2014 • 542 pages

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This textbook may be useful as an overview, or as a starting point for discussions.
It fits more as a history study than a technical reference.

It suffers from taking such a broad range of topics, devoting only snippets of summaries to topics and occasionally drilling into the minutiae of a single facet of a topic.
The understanding it builds is thus fractured and incoherent.

In terms of prose, it also suffers heavily from academia and sensationalism. There are many popular culture references to shows and quotes of famous figures. These detract from the content by dating the material, and padding out its brief sections with irrelevant information.

March 23, 2019