Het internet of things bevat een schat aan informatie voor forensisch onderzoek maar die ligt niet voor het oprapen. Overheid en bedrijfsleven zullen moeten investeren in speciale apparatuur en in opleidingen voor het toepassen van nieuwe technieken.

Currently, promising new tools are under development that will enable crime scene investigators to analyze fingerprints or DNA-traces at the crime scene. While these technologies could help to find a perpetrator early in the investigation, they may also strengthen confirmation bias when an incorrect …

In het voorjaar van 2007 publiceerde het Tijdschrift voor Criminologie een themanummer, getiteld 'Experimenten in de criminologie en criminologische experimenten', dat gewijd was aan het gebruik van experimentele designs in criminologisch onderzoek. De daarin beschreven experimenten hadden vooral betrekking …

Crime scenes can always be explained in multiple ways. Traces alone do not provide enough information to infer a whole series of events that has taken place; they only provide clues for these inferences. CSIs need additional information to be able to interpret observed traces. In the near future, a new …

New technologies will allow Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs) in the near future to analyse traces at the crime scene and receive identification information while still conducting the investigation. These developments could have considerable effects on the way an investigation is conducted. CSIs may start …

In the present study, how crime scene investigators are informed before going to a crime scene was investigated. In order to gain more insight in the flow of information from emergency call to crime scene, semi-structured interviews were conducted in three different police regions with six crime scene …

This study seeks to explore the characteristics of cyber-organised crime (OC), and focuses on the criminal activities of cyber-OC groups, their modus operandi, the organisational structures, the ‘profiles’ of the involved offenders, and the characteristics of criminal investigation into these cases. …