Financial asset investigation continues to evolve through its techniques, and this book serves as a practical primer, emphasizing the use of data collection forms, the latest computer technology, and tools for identifying, locating, and assessing debtors¹ assets and liabilities. The text explains data gathering from computer data bases, CD-ROM, human sources, surveillance, and public records. The topics cover both individuals and businesses. They range from obtaining subjects¹ basic identifiers, such as a social security number, to using key business ratios to calculate figures for a company¹s balance sheet. This new edition strives to incorporate more online and electronic resources and includes a complete chapter on investigation through use of the Internet. Additional new topics include financial investigation for security officers, piercing the corporate veil, news groups, and public record searching shortcuts. Throughout the book, useful forms are provided for gathering, organizing, and analyzing data which allows for easy integration of information. Learning how to exploit information trails and cutting through smoke screens are the main themes of this practical and effective investigative tool.

Combines coverage of private and public (police) investigations in a single paperback text. Written in a lively and engaging manner. Gives students an overview of why and how investigations are conducted and an awareness of who investigators are and what they do. Ideal for students thinking about a career in investigations. This book gives students the tools they need to get a job including what jobs are available, how they can go about getting them, what skills are needed, and what they will do if and when they get these jobs.

Product Description: This new second edition serves as both a comprehensive first step for the aspiring private investigator as well as a useful resource for the experienced investigator. The text is a manual of procedures, concepts, forms, and guidelines presented in plain, clear language, yet with substantial depth of technical knowledge...read more

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This comprehensive text explores the practical techniques for financial asset investigation. It steers private investigators, collection specialists, judgment professionals, and asset recovery specialists in undertaking information collection in a legal manner. This new edition remains the predominate primer on how to find assets to satisfy judgments and debts, but it now also includes a significant focus on the emerging underground economy. New chapters cover individual and enterprise involvement in the emerging 'shadow' financial domain. This includes the new world of 'smartphones,' prepaid cards, carding operations, and electric money laundering. The text explores the connections between stolen credit card information, the gambling sector, money laundering, and the role a subject may play in a larger criminal enterprise. A new chapter also discusses organized crime's impact on the Internet and financial transactions in cyberspace. The book also addresses the impact of portable digital devices on civil and criminal investigations and the new challenges for investigators working through this electronic labyrinth. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction and objectives and ends with a helpful summary. Significant Internet and electronic sources appear in the tables at the end of chapters, as do useful forms provided for gathering, organizing, and analyzing data. New also to this edition is a glossary that defines terms introduced in the text and an appendix that provides a checklist for traditional and nontraditional asset investigations. Financial investigation is a fascinating subject that continually yields new information, and this fourth edition seeks to provide an understanding of the digital forensics and mobile digital technologies for the asset investigator's toolbox of the twenty-first century.

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Practical yet authoritative, Private Security and the Investigative Process, Second Edition, is an important reference tool for private investigators and security professionals. Both students and seasoned security practitioners alike will benefit from the resources, ideas, and suggestions for tactics and security strategy contained within this book. Charles P. Nemeth expertly blends practice with theory to show students how to be professional when confronted with the rigors of the real world, in both the public and private sectors. Private Security and the Investigative Process, is ideally suited for private security organizations, criminal justice libraries, corporate security personnel, and law enforcement personnel.The concepts are effectively presented with numerous forms, checklists and valuable guides that will help illustrate the investigative process both in the public and private sector.Charles Nemeth, JD, Ph.D., LL.M. is currently Director of Graduate Criminal Justice/Legal Studies, Director of Institute of Law and Public Policy, and Director of Program Development at California University of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a widely published author with over 30 titles to his credit and is a regular consultant to security companies. He holds a JD from the University of Baltimore and a post doctoral degree in Law, Psychiatry and Criminology, the LL.M., from the National Law Center of George Washington University. Dr. Nemeth is a recognized expert in private sector justice, ethical issues in law and legal analysis and appellate practice, and also holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Duquesne University. For more than two decades, he has practiced law in both the civil and criminal arena, specializing in personal injury and criminal litigation, and has been active in the North Carolina, New York and Pennsylvania Bars. He regularly consults with collegiate institutions and private sector justice entities. A comprehensive, authoritative resource for the industry, its practitioners, and those seeking a career in the private-security industryProvides insight into the fundamental competency skills necessary to function as an investigatorContains numerous forms, checklists, for useful and practical reference

Drawing on his more than two decades of experiences, a private detective shares insider advice on how to catch a cheating spouse, uncover hidden assets and monetary fraud, use the Internet to gain information, trail a subject, protect one's privacy, uncover and preserve legal evidence, and more. Original.

This new second edition serves as both a comprehensive first step for the aspiring private investigator as well as a useful resource for the experienced investigator. The text is a manual of procedures, concepts, forms, and guidelines presented in plain, clear language, yet with substantial depth of technical knowledge. The author examines diverse sources of information, including local, county, state, and federal records, and informants; detailed pretext interviews; physical surveillance and surveillance photography; and executive protection services. Also discussed are such areas as report writing; interviews, interrogations, and statements; locating missing persons; industrial and commercial undercover operations; accident investigations; business and industrial espionage; and legal constraints. Strongly featured are expanded and updated chapters on information technology, optical related visual aids, and managing a detective agency. Appen-dices provide common visual and verbal errors in vehicle license numbers, states of origin for social security numbers, and workers’ compensation fraud indicators. In addition, the book is generously illustrated with diagrams and examples to clarify specific points for the reader. This new edition continues to be an essential tool and resource for all private investigators. It will also be of benefit to attorneys and their investigative staff, as well as law enforcement investigators. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Combines coverage of private and public (police) investigations in a single paperback text. Written in a lively and engaging manner. Gives students an overview of why and how investigations are conducted and an awareness of who investigators are and what they do...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Tells how to determine if a debt is collectable, induce quick payment, find missing debtors, use collection agencies, and avoid bad credit risks

An examination of the private use of secret agents by large corporations and the wealthy names, recounts the agents' activities and objectives, and notes the impact on American business and life

Reveals the machinery and the methods of a powerful and potentially dangerous, American subculture, the private sector police forces, and shows the ways in which the private police infringe on our liberties