Investigation or Investigations may refer to:
Law enforcement
* Investigation, the work of a
detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads th ...
* Investigation, the work of a
private investigator
A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private investigators of ...
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Criminal investigation
Criminal investigation is an applied science that involves the study of facts that are then used to inform criminal trials. A complete criminal investigation can include searching, interviews, interrogations, evidence collection and preservatio ...
, the study of facts, used to identify, locate and prove the guilt of an accused criminal
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Criminal investigation department
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of a police force to which most plainclothes detectives belong in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth nations. A force's CID is distinct from its Special Branch (though officers of b ...
, the branch of British Police force to which plainclothes detectives belong
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...
, the primary investigative arm of the US Department of Justice
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Tax investigation
Tax investigation is an in-depth investigation processed by a tax authority in order to recover tax undercharged in previous years of assessment. This is the general term in commonwealth countries. It is carried out when a taxpayer is suspected of ...
Medicine
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Clinical trial
Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel vaccines, drugs, dietar ...
, an investigation conducted to collect data for new drugs or devices
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Investigational New Drug, a category in a USFDA program
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Outbreak Investigation
In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease when cases are in excess of normal expectancy for the location or season. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire ...
Science and maths
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Forensic science
Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal ...
investigation, in fields such as accounting, science, engineering and information technology
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Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space
Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space is a K–5 mathematics curriculum, developed at TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The curriculum is often referred to as ''Investigations'' or simply ''TERC''. Patterned after the NCTM stan ...
, a K-5 mathematics curriculum
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
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The Investigation
''The Investigation'' (original title ''Śledztwo'') is a science fiction/ detective/ thriller novel by the Polish writer Stanisław Lem. The novel incorporates a philosophical discourse on explanation of unknown phenomena. It was first publis ...
'', a 1959 book by Stanisław Lem
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''The Investigation'' (play), a 1965 play by Peter Weiss
Television
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"Investigations" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), an episode of the television series ''Star Trek: Voyager''
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Investigation (TV channel)
Investigation (formerly Canal D/Investigation'')'' is a Canadian French-language specialty channel. Owned by Bell Media, it primarily broadcasts true crime programming. It originally launched on December 12, 2013.
History
On August 10, 2011, Ast ...
, a Canadian French-language specialty channel
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''The Investigation'' (TV series), a 2020 six-part Danish TV series
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Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery (stylized and branded on-air as ID since 2008) is an American multinational pay television network dedicated to true crime documentaries owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. As of February 2015, approximately 86 million Ameri ...
, a digital cable channel
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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''Investigate'' (magazine), a New Zealand current affairs magazine
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''Investigation'' (film), a 2006 Bulgarian drama
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Investigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years rese ...
, the practice of in-depth reporting or analysis
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Temporal Investigations
"Trials and Tribble-ations" is the 104th episode of the American science fiction television series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', the sixth episode of the fifth season. It was written as a tribute to the original series of ''Star Trek,'' in the ...
, an agency of the government of the United Federation of Planets in the fictional universe of ''Star Trek''
See also
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Discovery (observation)
Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something previously unrecognized as meaningful. With reference to sciences and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and providing ...
, the act of detecting something new, or something "old" that had been unrecognized as meaningful
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Examination (disambiguation)
Examination may refer to:
* Physical examination, a medical procedure
* Questioning and more specific forms thereof, for example in law:
** Cross-examination
** Direct examination
* Exam as assessment, also "test", "exams", "evaluation"
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Forensic science
Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal ...
, in fields such as accounting, science, engineering and information technology
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Investigator (disambiguation)
Investigator may refer to:
Occupations Government and law
* Detective, a person who investigates crimes, can be a rank and job in a police department, state or federal employee, or a civilian called a private detective
* Inspector, a police rank ...
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Research
Research is "creativity, creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular att ...
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