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Crime Scene Analysis

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The analytical process of interpreting the specific features of a crime and related crime scenes

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Crime Scene Processing

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Recognizing, documenting, collecting, preserving, and transporting physical evidence at and from a crime scene

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Crime Scene Investigation

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Crime scene examination and documentation, laboratory analysis of physical evidence, scientific interpretation of results, and scientific crime reconstruction

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Inputs

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Basic items of forensic information that should be reviewed before a competent criminal profile can be rendered: videos, photos, investigator reports, ME and coroner reports, etc.

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Threshold Assessment

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Investigative document that reviews the initial physical evidence of behavior, forensic victimology, and crime scene characteristics in order to provide immediate direction - what is currently understood

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Most common method of reconsctruction

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Reconstruction by experience

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A reconstruction theory may be:

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Supported by the evidence
Inconsistent with the evidence
Inconclusive

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Pre-Discovery Influences

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Time, environmental changes, alterations by staff, staging, victim actions, secondary transfer, decomposition, insects, fire

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Post-Discovery Influences

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Evidence process, failure to search or recover, coroner/ME, premature scene clean up, storage, examination, chain of custody

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Logic

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The process of argumentation or a unified discipline which investigates the structure and validity of ordered knowledge; the science of valid thought

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Three Basic Principles of Logic

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The principle of identity
The principle of the excluded middle
The principle of sufficient reason

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The Principle of Identity

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Each case should be treated as an individual rather than an extension of other similar crimes; has its own evidence, behavior, and victim-offender interactions

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The Principle of the Excluded Middle

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Either a crime has occurred, or it hasn’t

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The Principle of Sufficient Reason

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Everything in the known universe has an explanation for its existence

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What type of study is associated with BEA?

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Idiographic study

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CCM Classifications of Homicide by Motive (4)

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  1. Criminal Enterprise
  2. Personal Cause
  3. Sexual Homicide
  4. Group Cause
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Examples of criminal enterprise homicide

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Contract Murder
Kidnap Murder
Product Tampering
Drug Murder 
Insurance-Related Death
Felony Murder
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Examples of personal cause homicide

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Erotomania-Motivated Murder
Domestic Homicide
Argument/Conflict Murder
Authority Murder
Revenge
Non-Specific
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Erotomania

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Fantasy of romantic love or spiritual union

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Fusion

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Offender blends his personality into the victim’s, may see the victim as an imposter or obstacle

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Examples of sexual homicide

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Organized
Disorganized
Mixed
Sadistic
Elder Female
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Examples of group cause homicide

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Cult
Extremist Homicide
Group Excitement

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Examples of arson

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Vandalism
Excitement-Motivated
Revenge-Motivated
Crime Concealment
Profit-Motivated
Serial Arson
Serial Bombing
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Adductive Reasoning

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A conclusion is developed without a full appreciation of the facts

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The logical basis of profile structure

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Premises and conclusions

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Premise

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Reasons that support the main claim of an argument

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Conclusion

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What is inferred from the premise

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Arguments must be…

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valid (linkage) and sound (true of this world)

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Crime Scene Analysis involves these forensic protocols

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  1. Crime scene protocols
  2. Investigative protocols
  3. Medicolegal investigation protocols
  4. Forensic victimology
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Post-Conviction Review

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A crime scene analysis conducted subsequent to a conviction, as part of the appeals process

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Equivocal Forensic Analysis

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A review of all physical evidence in a case, questioning all related assumptions and conclusions to preserve objectivity

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What can be established with physical evidence (8)

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Corpus Delicti
Modus Operandi
Signature Behavior
Linking suspect to victim
Linking person to crime scene
DIsproving or supporting witness testimony
Identification of a suspect
Providing investigative leads
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Corpus Delicti

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“The body of the crime;” the essential facts that show a crime has taken place

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BEA Scientific Method

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Observe the evidence
Generate a hypothesis
Test the hypothesis against all known evidence and accepted facts

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