h Though prosecution and sentencing processes have built-in discretion to accommodate the circumstances of each case, prosecutors, judges, and other experts in criminal justice believe that the wide variation in the outcomes listed above is beyond the expected bounds of discretion, and occurs primarily for two reasons. h First, it is important to recognize that successful prosecution requires s...

In this paper we present a concept for visualising an interaction log in a virtual crime scene investigation learning environment called OPENCRIMESCENE. The interaction log shall be used for reviewing the user’s behaviour after having examined the virtual crime scene. Furthermore, it shall serve as a valuable discussion background when it comes to self or teacher’s control. As initial point the...

In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the autopsy findings of deaths due to hanging in the last 25 years in Eskisehir province located in western Anatolia and to share them in the literature. The gender, age, scene of crime, the material used for hanging type and hanging, autopsy findings and toxicological findings were examined using the data of Eskişehir Forensic Medicine Branch Directorate...

In this paper we argue that crime drama exemplified in television programs such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an ideal testbed for approximating real-world natural language understanding and the complex inferences associated with it. We propose to treat crime drama as a new inference task, capitalizing on the fact that each episode poses the same basic question (i.e., who committed the c...

Hair is among most common types of evidence reported in criminal investigations. Throughout the stages of usual hair-growth parameters, hairs goes through a continuous loss from every individual, and due to this loss these hairs may be transferred from one individual to another in any criminal commotion [1]. Hair have gained a wide interest in its examination for various fields counting taxonom...

We focus on gait recognition for criminal investigation. In criminal investigation, person authentication is performed by comparing target data at the crime scene and multiple gait data with slightly different views from that of the target data. For this task, we propose fusion of direct cross-view matching. Cross-view matching generally produces worse result than those of same-view matching wh...

The suicide act of self-strangulation must be distinguished from homicide, which needs objective scene investigation, autopsy and anamnesis in order to elucidate the manner of death. A 54-year-old man was found dead in public hospital small mosque. There was one nylon rope around his neck, tied together with a knot in the front, under the chin, and rope continuing tightly to right ankle support...