Integrates a number of disciplines into a complete account of the assessment, investigation, and intervention of child sexual abuse and exploitation, guiding the reader step-by-step through each stage of the investigation. Contains sections on parties to the crime, commission of the crime, child pornography investigation, interviewing children and the offender, search warrants, and case management. This second edition features material on recent case law decisions, the latest research findings on children's memory, techniques in securing admissions and confessions, and problems created by the Internet, plus 15 search warrant examples. The author is executive director of the Child Abuse Forensic Institute. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)