Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) is a carefully planned systematic process with the purpose of acquiring physical evidences to shed light upon the physical reality of the crime and eventually detect the identity of the criminal. Capturing images and videos of the crime scene is an important part of this process in order to conduct a deeper analysis on the digital evidence for possible hints. Thi...

background: to determine the role of drugs in fatal overdose, analyses were done on samples obtained from autopsy examination and death and crime scene investigations. the aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of toxicology analyses of postmortem biological and non-biological samples belonging to a subject in determining the forensic cause of death. methods: toxicological analysis we...

Shoeprint information is gathered from crime scenes by photography, a cast or electrostatic lifting. This impression is then used to arrive at three main types of classification. Firstly there is the basic match in shoe size, secondly matching a shoe print to a particular brand or model. This can be achieved by keeping a database of product information from shoe manufactures (this data is abund...

A better integration of the information conveyed by traces within intelligence-led framework would allow forensic science to participate more intensively to security assessments through forensic intelligence (part I). In this view, the collection of data by examining crime scenes is an entire part of intelligence processes. This conception frames our proposal for a model that promotes to better...

Ritual and signature are fantasy-driven, repetitive crime scene behaviors that have been found to occur in serial sexual homicide. Notwithstanding numerous anecdotal case reports, ritual and signature have rarely been studied empirically. In a national sample of 38 offenders and their 162 victims, we examined behavioral and thematic consistency, as well as the evolution and uniqueness of these ...

This contribution presents an approach to visualize crime scene analysis results with three-dimensional geovirtual environments. Commonly, the results of those crime data analyses are published trough thematic maps. Therefore cartographic visualizations can be considered as a key element to communicate the outcomes of crime analysis. Those visualizations produced by crime analysts both in opera...