INVESTIGATION

Roles in an Investigation



Roles in an Investigation

Introduction

Before the advent of victimization surveys, researchers and policy makers had only data from official police records and collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the form of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program system and the Supplementary Homicide Report (Young, 1992). For example, police may institute a new initiative to crack down on a particular type of crime. In this paper, after analyzing the given scenario following questions are answered accordingly.

Identify and explain the various roles you would play in this investigation.

The fist and most important part of any legal investigation is the investigation of crime scene CSI. The results of investigation should be such that the crime scene should be recreated. The professional investigation is usually an officer appointed by the authority. Certain qualities are required of a professional crime scene investigation are listed below. The professional crime scene investigation is required part of the computer forensics team.

The first thing that should be considered before the fact to start the survey is to behave the way of thinking about how the criminal would have committed the crime. It is now required to have a criminal way of thinking and things that can cause the vulnerability of the organization who is the victim of crime. It is expected that the person is well versed with the photographic equipment and processes that need to done during the process.

The investigation of crime scene in case of computer crime is similar to the crime scene investigation carried out in other cases such as murder, theft etc. Fingerprints on the computer equipment as a victim and so on can be projected to find the person who could have accessed the system. An important difference should be noted here that the evidence to prove that the person who accessed the system has committed the crime is difficult to prove in court. The use of incident response systems is quite useful.

We must look access to the computer system and network regions also quite. The crime scene investigation is based on the principle of first hand information and power of observation of the professional. The ability of the professional to check the evidence and produce legally in court is very important. Key logger programs can be used to locate the criminal habits (Selkin, 1994).

Explain the purpose and use of a psychological autopsy. Explain why it would it be advantageous to use this procedure in this investigation.

One of the most important techniques used in understanding criminal behavior is the psychological expert advice. In which the psychologist displays all his knowledge in the legal and psychological. Among these is the so-called expert psychological autopsy. This procedure is considered as a process of data collection that allows the reconstruction of the deceased, their psychological and mental state before death. To develop this procedure, you must work inter-disciplinary between doctors, lawyers, forensic psychiatrists and psychologists.

The psychological autopsy as a technical expert in the ...