The importance and relevance of chain of custody to criminal investigations and judicial outcomes Chain of custody is defined by Saferstein (2015)‚ as a sequential documentation‚ that shows custody‚ control‚ analysis‚ handling and the nature of physical or electrical evidence. Chain of custody is a model that is utilised by the police during criminal investigations to demonstrate that the evidence has been handled in a manner that does not destroy the integrity of the evidence (Houck & Siegel‚
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• Offender profiling is only a part of criminal investigative analysis and is not treated as a single entity of investigation‚ instead as part of an interrelated behavioural investigation. However‚ this technique is not widely used in Australia‚ as there are only four members of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF) that work in conjunction with the police‚ mostly within the serial cases of a violent/sexual nature‚ it is widely used in America possibly due to their
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Kingston upon Hull has been much maligned in the popular media as a city with the highest obesity and teenage pregnancy rates. The city also has been near the bottom for GCSE results for many years. I think it is safe say that Hull is a long way from being nominated for the city of culture award. It is therefore remarkable that located behind a run down‚ unstable and dirty bus terminal lays a tiny theatre known all over the theatrical world. The theatre is the home of Hull Truck and the playwright
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The criminal investigation process balances the rights of victims‚ offenders and society to a certain extent. The main aspect of achieving justice in the criminal investigation process is to balance the rights of the parties involved. Thus‚ the extent to which the law balances their rights‚ includes the use of police powers‚ the rights of suspects and the right on bail. The balance of powers used by police in protecting the rights of victims‚ suspects and society has partially been achieved in
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be in. With criminal investigations‚ which is my field of study can be the detectives‚ field officers or the crime scene technicians. The crime scene tech position is what I myself am going into. I believe that there is always going to be crime with that they would need the crime scene techs and they go out and process the crime scene without getting evidence and getting it process there as well not be a case. What I would like to let you know is how the techs start their investigations and what they
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face down and dead. Whilst he was in custody a conversation took place where the offender revealed that Nona had fallen and hit her head on the rocks surrounding the creek. She survived the fall only to have the offender hold her down in the creek she had fallen into‚ drowning her. The autopsy conducted was inconclusive on the cause of death but there were however features found that suggested the cause of death was drowning. The trial found that there was indeed motive behind the murder as there was
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Running Head: CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS IN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS Constitutional Protections in Criminal Investigations What are constitutional rights and why are they so important to us? Our Constitutional rights are in place to protect us from wrongful conviction and improper police behavior. Originally these rights were made in reaction to the abusive conduct displayed by British authorities during Colonial times. Without the Constitution and the Bill of Rights‚ we would not be a
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Thomas Jefferson once wrote‚ “Our Citizens may be deceived for a while‚ and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected‚ we may trust to them for light”. Although Jefferson was well before the muckrakers era of influence‚ he had the ability to recognize the flaws in social‚ economic‚ and political aspects of American life. Jefferson was one of the first men to become conscious of these injustices‚ but he was not the only one. A group‚ widely known as “the muckrakers” developed
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survivors. Pain affected the people of Hiroshima physically‚ emotionally‚ and mentally. Were the people of Hiroshima capable to stay calm in the time of destruction? Pain affected the people of Hiroshima physically. When the atomic bomb dropped‚ many people were injured and many people also died. Many people of Hiroshima had to go to the hospital because of their injuries for example‚ broken bones and bad wounds. This explains how pain affected the people of Hiroshima physically. Pain affected the people
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How has imperialism affected humans‚ that is a good question to ask. Although imperialism was sometimes bad it was mostly good. There are three major improvement that happened in imperialism in this essay. One improvement was the new religions during imperialism. The second is the new way of transportation. The final and last major improvement was the new way of farming. The first major improvement was the new ways of religions. It made up new kinds of religions for people in those countries that
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