Crime Scene or Event Scene?

The LE cell: crime scene or crime stopper?

have often said that the lupus erythematosus (LE) cell is the most important cell in all of medicine. Th is judgment does not refl ect the cell's putative function in auto-immunity but rather the insights it has provided into the mechanisms of autoimmunity. Discovered fortuitously by Hargraves and colleagues (see Suggested reading below) at the Mayo Clinic, the test to detect this cell is very ...

Violent Crime Scene

Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Crime Scene Investigations - Novel Concept of Crime Scene Investigations

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...

Intelligence-led crime scene processing. Part II: Intelligence and crime scene examination.

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...

Drug Related Deaths in Tehran, Iran: Toxicological, Death and Crime Scene Investigations

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 analysi...

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...