A Model for Managing Crime Scene Examiners

Crime Scene or Event Scene?

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Expertise in Crime Scene Examination: Comparing Search Strategies of Expert and Novice Crime Scene Examiners in Simulated Crime Scenes

OBJECTIVE The strategies of novice and expert crime scene examiners were compared in searching crime scenes. BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated that experts frame a scene through reconstructing the likely actions of a criminal and use contextual cues to develop hypotheses that guide subsequent search for evidence. METHOD Novice (first-year undergraduate students of forensic scien...

A Novel Plan for Crime Scene Reconstruction

The traditional methods of registering crime scene, such as photographs, sketches, videos and oral descriptions, etc., are lowly efficient and couldn’t meet the requirement. In this paper, a new method for crime scene reconstruction which combines the virtual reality techniques with efficient interaction is hereby proposed. The new techniques, such as close-range photogrammetry, panorama photog...

Violent Crime Scene

Mobile technology for crime scene examination

In this paper, the concept of distributed cognition is used to inform the design, development and trialling of technologies to support Crime Scene Examination is reported. A user trial, with trainee Crime Scene Examiners, was conducted to compare the ways in which evidence search and recovery could be combined with the production of a crime scene report (that must be written at the scene). Part...