Widen your reading with these suggested journal articles. Links have been provided for SAGE journal articles, enabling you to access for free. You may have access to non-SAGE journal articles via your university library.

An overview of key strategies and the development of police investigations can be found in:

Burrows, J. and Tarling, R. (1987) ‘The Investigation of Crime in England and Wales’, British Journal of Criminology, 27: 229-251.

Button examines strategies and limitations in the investigation of fraud:

Button, M. (2011) ‘Fraud Investigation and the “Flawed Architecture” of Counter Fraud Entities in the United Kingdom’, International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 39: 249–265.

The changing context of forensic science in criminal investigations is reviewed in:

Lawless, C.J. (2011) ‘Policing Markets: The Contested Shaping of Neo-Liberal Forensic Science’, British Journal of Criminology, 51: 671-689.

The use of CCTV and its impact on crime and the conduct of investigations is reviewed by Waples, Gill and Fisher who conclude that spatial displacement does occur but only infrequently:

Waples, S., Gill, M. and Fisher, S. (2009) ‘Does CCTV Displace Crime?’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 9: 207-224.