Digital crime scenes take place in the context of physical crime scenes. Virtual crime scene reconstruction is an activity where investigators create a 3dimensional (3-D) model of an actual crime scene for the purpose of determining the events that lead to the crime. While virtual crime scene reconstruction is currently used for analyzing physical scenes, it can also help investigators visualiz...

As articulated in chapter 7, crime scene evidence is likely to be the only data that a profiling investigator will have to work with when attempting to solve a crime. From these data, the investigator will have to make predictions about the characteristics of an unidentified perpetrator. In considering how to relate pieces of crime scene evidence to offender characteristics within a scientific ...

Crime scene investigation is the meeting point of science, logic and law. Processing a crime scene is a long, tedious process that involves purposeful documentation of the conditions at the scene and the collection of any physical evidence that could possibly illuminate what happened and point to who did it. There is no typical crime scene, there is no typical body of evidence and there is no t...

Imagine the following scenario: an inexperienced law enforce‐ ment officer enters a crime scene and – on finding a USB key on a potential suspect – inserts it into a nearby Windows desktop computer hoping to find some information which may help an ongoing investigation. The desktop crashes and all data on the USB key and on the Windows desktop has now been potentially compromised. However, the ...

DNA material is now collected routinely from crime scenes for a wide range of offenses and its timely processing is acknowledged as a key element to its success in solving crime. An analysis of the processing of approximately 1500 samples of DNA material recovered from the property crime offenses of residential burglary, commercial burglary, and theft of motor vehicle in Northamptonshire, U.K. ...