SSCI1000U Lecture 3: "Crime Scene Investigation" and "Pattern and Impression Evidence"
11 Feb 2017
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Any place where a crime has been committed . Many different ways to classify a crime scene. Primary scene: the site of the original criminal activity. This classification scheme has nothing to do with a scene"s relative importance. Macroscopic refers to the overall crime scene. Microscopic usually refers to smaller scenes within the overall scene. No single definition works for all crime scenes! The crime scene expands and changes as the evidence dictates. Type of criminal behaviour associated with the scene. Three major avenues available to investigators to solve crimes: Physical evidence (only physical evidence is free of inherent error or bias) Very helpful when reconstructing the crime scene. Crime scene reconstruction (tells us what happened before, after and during a crime has been committed) Prove that a crime has been committed. Establish the identify of a persons associated with crime scene. Link a system with a victim or with a crime scene.
