Specialized Crime Investigation 1 with Legal Medicine

Part 1

Specialized crime investigation

Deals with the study of major crimes based on the application of special investigative technique.

Special crime investigation

This involves a close relationship between the prober in the field and the crime laboratory technician.

Legal Medicine

A branch of medicine which deals with the application of Medical knowledge to the purpose of law and in the adminstration of justice.

Forensic medicine

Another term for Legal medicine

Preliminary investigation

First phase of Special Crime investigation

In-depth investigation

Second phase of Special crime investigation

Concluding investigation

Last phase of Special crime investigation

Deductive Reasoning

It is the one you decide is the answer to the case and which you then attempt to prove with a collection of facts.

Inductive Reasoning

Collects all the facts available first and allows them to determine the judgment.

Crime Scene

The place where the essential ingredients of the criminal act took place.

Outdoor Crime scene

Is the most vulnerable to loss, contamination, and damaging effects on biological evidence in a short period of time.

Indoor crime scene

This is a crime scene that is generally less susceptible to environment loss and delecterious change.

Conveyance crime scene

A crime scene involving a mode of transportation where a crime has been committed in, on, or through the vehicle.

Primary crime scene

Is a type of crime scene where a crime actually occurred.

Secondary crime scene

Is in some way related to the crime but is not where the actual crime took place.

Physical evidence

articles and materials that are found in connection with an investigation and that aid in establishing the identity of the perpetrator or the circumstances under which the crime was committed or that, in general, assist in the prosecution of the criminal.

Corpus Delicti

Objects or substances which are an essential part of the body of the crime

Associative Evidence

Evidence which links the suspects to the crime scene or offense

Tracing Evidence

articlees which assists the invstigator in locating the suspect

Modus Operandi

It is a Latin term for mode, a method of operations. in police work. it is used in connection with the activities of a criminal.

Modus Operandi

It includes individual peculiarities, methods, techniques, tools used in committing the crime, and the physical condition of the crime scene.