Forensic entomology applies knowledge about insects associated with decedent in crime scene investigation. It is possible to calculate a minimum postmortem interval (PMI) by determining the age and species of the oldest blow fly larvae feeding on decedent. This study was conducted in Malaysia to identify maggot specimens collected during crime scene investigations. The usefulness of the molecul...

Thus far in this book, on the basis of the investigative and forensic science practice literature, the types of crime scene evidence that are typically available and submitted for analysis by law enforcement investigators have been described. The process of crime reconstruction, in which attempts are made to translate these pieces of crime scene evidence into a narrative of crime events and off...

Forensics and forensic science are highly popular terms nowadays thanks to famous TV series and films. Most people, inspired by these series, normally associate these terms to crime scene investigation (CSI), ocular inspection and evidence recovery. However, forensics involves much more than CSI, including a vast number of sciences, disciplines and studies such as forensic genetics, chemistry, ...

This paper aims to study the Countermeasures of big data security management in prevention and control computer network crime absence relevant legislation judicial practice. Starting from concepts definitions crime, this puts forward comparison matrix, investigation statistics method characteristic measure crime. Through methods scene investigation, tracking, studies countermeasures perspective...

This paper describes research conducted in collaboration with Greater Manchester Police (United Kingdom), to evaluate the utility of Virtual Environments for scene of crime analysis, forensic investigation, and law enforcement briefing and training. We present an illustrated case study of the construction of a high-fidelity virtual environment, intended to match a particular real-life crime sce...

On 08 April 2004, the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Science in the Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, received 14 logs from Larry R. Smart, Criminal Investigation Section, Office of the Sherriff, Collin County, Texas. Ten logs numbered 2600 to 2609 were retrieved from a crime scene. Four logs were retrieved from the scene of a gathering attended by the suspect. These logs are numbered ...

A digital forensic investigation aims to collect and analyse the evidence necessary to demonstrate a potential hypothesis of a digital crime. Despite the availability of several digital forensics tools, investigators still approach each crime case from scratch, postulating potential hypotheses and analysing large volumes of data. This paper proposes to explicitly model forensic requirements in ...