Criminal identification problems are examples of situations in which forensic approach the DNA profiles study is a common procedure. In order to deal with these problems it is needed an introduction to present and explain the various concepts involved, since distinct areas must be considered. Some problems are presented and the use of the object-oriented Bayesian networks, example of probabilis...

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 ...

Abstract The current imaginary mock-crime study examined innocent interviewees’ ( N = 128) planned counter-interrogation strategies and their willingness to disclose critical information as a function of (a) the type secondary act (irrelevant crime under investigation) they imagined having executed at scene (lawful vs. unlawful act) (b) presence suspicion directed towards interviewees (suspicio...

The on-site investigation ensures the direct perception of ambiance crime scene, even if its commission was not accompanied by material changes, or although such transformations, they were subject findings in early stages criminal process.

Criminal profiling, referred to as offender profiling, psychological profiling or criminal personality profiling, is the derivation of inferences about a criminal from aspects of the crime (s) that he or she has committed. Available information from a crime and crime scene theoretically should point to a psychological portrait of the unknown perpetrator inferring such things as the offender’s m...