Forensic investigations and victims
Forensic investigations are a major part of crime investigation to throw light on the suspect, perpetrator, modus operandi and the conviction of the perpetrator. It involves gathering and analysis of evidence. Forensic investigation uses multi-disciplinary approaches and a wide variety of techniques...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Victimology
Year: 2022, Pages: 435-452 |
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| Summary: | Forensic investigations are a major part of crime investigation to throw light on the suspect, perpetrator, modus operandi and the conviction of the perpetrator. It involves gathering and analysis of evidence. Forensic investigation uses multi-disciplinary approaches and a wide variety of techniques from various scientific fields like forensic chemistry, forensic entomology and microbial forensics. This chapter briefly describes the important forensic investigations such as medical analysis and investigations, criminal profiling, psychological autopsy, fingerprint matching and ballistic analysis. Criminal profiling is a technique to identify the personality and behaviour characteristics to predict the offender, which assumes an inherent uniformity among the perpetrator’s characters, personality and modus operandi and required knowledge and skill to produce each offender profiling and to make common characteristics of the offenders committing similar crimes. Current methods and shortcomings of the psychological autopsy are described. Though fingerprint examination has a long history, still it is not in an advanced stage and efforts are going on for its full utilization in crime investigation. Recent advances in the ballistic analysis are described. One section deals with the report writing of forensic investigations and court proceedings, and it focuses on the guidelines. The chapter also describes the guidelines and policies to be followed for investigations, especially in special cases like sexual abuse. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 448-452 |
| ISBN: | 9783031129292 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-12930-8_20 |