Suspects (Criminal investigation)
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Crime suspects
Criminal suspects
Suspected criminals
Suspects of crimes
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found: Work cat.: Prez, J. Gym rats, 2010(an artists' book; A one-sided, three-panel accordion is attached inside upper wrapper, with an excerpt of a news article describing "more than three dozen suspected thieves ... responsible for a yearlong rash of rip-offs, hitting just about every gym locker room from Battery Park to Washington Heights". Mug shots of the alleged perpetrators, as well as illustrations, with German text in the background, are offset printed throughout. Signed by the artist below the colophon.)
found: Merriam-Webster online, Apr. 8, 2019(suspect: a person suspected of a crime; also : a person apprehended for but not yet charged with an offense)
found: Encyclopædia Britannica online, Apr. 8, 2019:Crime-Law (Crime detection falls into three distinguishable phases: the discovery that a crime has been committed, the identification of a suspect, and the collection of sufficient evidence to indict the suspect before a court)
found: Gooch, G. A dictionary of law enforcement, 2015(under investigative interview: The questioning of suspects is sometimes termed interrogation, although there are negative connotations associated with the term. Suspects are not obliged to answer such questions (see right of silence), and the right of the police to question suspects is governed by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Codes of Practice made under it; harbouring: Hiding a criminal or suspected criminal)
found: Clark, C. Interviewing Suspects of Crime; in Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (V. 8, Issue2, June 2011) viewed online June 10, 2019.
notfound: National criminal justice thesaurus, 1993;National Criminal Justice Reference Service thesaurus, via WWW, Apr. 8, 2019;Black's law dictionary, 2004
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2019-04-08: new
2019-07-12: revised
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