?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+experience+of+investigation+for+detectives&rft.creator=Dean%2C+Geoff&rft.subject=Criminal+investigation&rft.subject=Detectives&rft.subject=police+detectives%2Finvestigators&rft.subject=criminal+investigation&rft.subject=qualitative+research&rft.subject=phenomenography&rft.subject=thinking+styles&rft.subject=police+training+and+education&rft.subject=investigative+management&rft.subject=thesis&rft.subject=doctoral&rft.description=The+thesis+presents+a+qualitative+research+study+on+how+police+detectives+experience%2C+understand%2C+and+think+about+the+process+of+doing+serious+and+complex+criminal+investigations.+The+data+was+collected+using+a+semi-+structured%2C+in-depth+interview+with+a+group+of+sixty-four+experienced+police+investigators+from+Australia%2C+New+Zealand%2C+various+State+Police+Services+in+America+and+the+FBI.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe+empirical+research+methodology+of+phenomenography+was+employed+to+gather+and+analysis+the+interview+transcripts+for+this+group+of+detectives.+The+aim+of+this+phenomenographic+approach+was+to+elicit+the+variation+in+the+investigative+experience+both+within+individual+detectives+and+between+detectives+in+the+group+studied.%0D%0A%0D%0AUpon+analysis%2C+the+variation+in+this+group+of+detectives'+conceptions+about+doing+a+criminal+investigation+was+captured+in+a+set+of+four+hierarchically+ordered+and+qualitatively+different+categories+of+description.+These+four+categories+reflect+particular+cognitive+styles+or+preferred+ways+of+investigative+thinking+that+experienced+investigators+rely+upon+throughout+the+investigative+process.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe+four+'Investigative+Thinking+Styles'+start+with+the+application+of+the+'Method'+style+of+investigative+thinking%2C+through+to+the+'Challenge'+style%2C+and+then+onto+the+'Skill'+style%2C+and+finally+up+to+and+including+the+'Risk'+thinking+style.+These+four+styles+constitute+a+theoretical+model+of+investigation+that+has+important+practical+implications+for+the+recruitment%2C+selection%2C+and+training+of+investigating+officers+as+well+as+for+the+case+management+of+investigations+and+the+use+of+investigative+teams+for+major+crime+investigations.&rft.publisher=Queensland+University+of+Technology&rft.date=2000-12&rft.type=Thesis&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F35788%2F1%2F35788_Digitised%2520Thesis.pdf&rft.rights=free_to_read&rft.relation=Dean%2C+Geoff+(2000)+The+experience+of+investigation+for+detectives.+PhD+thesis%2C+Queensland+University+of+Technology.&rft.id_number=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F35788%2F&rft.rights=Copyright+Geoffrey+John+Dean&rft.identifier=Faculty+of+Law