With the advent of Information and Communication Technologies, the means of committing a crime and the crime itself are constantly evolved. In addition, the boundaries between traditional crime and cybercrime are vague: a crime may not have a defined traditional or digital form since digital and physical evidence may coexist in a crime scene. Furthermore, various items found in a crime scene ma...

Forensic Res Criminol Int J 2017, 4(1): 00094 enforcement agencies must be able to quickly and effectively secure a crime scene and preserve evidence for use in court and criminal proceedings. In the event of a major crime such as a homicide, getting evidence quickly becomes an extremely critical problem. Footprints, tire tracks and other evidence that is easy to disturb may be left at the crim...

Crime scenes can always be explained in multiple ways. Traces alone do not provide enough information to infer a whole series of events that has taken place; they only provide clues for these inferences. CSIs need additional information to be able to interpret observed traces. In the near future, a new source of information that could help to interpret a crime scene and testing hypotheses will ...

New technologies will allow Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs) in the near future to analyse traces at the crime scene and receive identification information while still conducting the investigation. These developments could have considerable effects on the way an investigation is conducted. CSIs may start reasoning based on possible database-matches which could influence scenario formation (i.e....

In this paper, a process model for digital investigations is defined using the theories and techniques from the physical investigation world. While digital investigations have recently become more common, physical investigations have existed for thousands of years and the experience from them can be applied to the digital world. This paper introduces the notion of a digital crime scene with its...

With over 65 million cats in the United States today (Pet Food Institute, Washington, D.C.), a large percentage of U.S. households have a cat and thus an abundance of cat hair. With the appropriate DNA tools, cat hairs could be used by a forensic laboratory to provide a link between the perpetrator of a crime and a crime scene. An assailant may unknowingly carry clinging cat hairs from a victim...

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...