Fingermarks are highly relevant in criminal investigations for individualization purposes. In some cases, the question in court changes from ‘Who is the source of the fingermarks?’ to ‘How did the fingermark end up on the surface?’. In this paper, we explore evaluation of fingermarks given activity level …

The amino acid profile obtained from a fingerprint may provide valuable information on its donor. Unfortunately, the collection of chemicals from the fingerprint is often destructive to the fingerprint ridge detail. Herein we detail the use of cross-linkable solutions of dextran-methacrylate to form …

This article describes ongoing research on the application of AI techniques such as Graph Neural Networks to assist investigators with the discovery of relations and patterns in digital forensic evidence. Digital forensic analysis of smartphones and computers reveals forensic artifacts that are extracted …

Highlights •Crime scene investigations are accompanied by cognitive challenges. •Introducing technologies at crime scenes requires research into the human factor. •Mobile technologies can impede the investigation without studying the impact.

In 2016 kreeg de Boog te maken met een forse toename van veiligheidsincidenten met patiënten. Naar aanleiding van de toename van de veiligheidsincidenten binnen de Boog in 2016 is er in 2017 door middel van een prospectieve risico inventarisatie (hierna te noemen: PRI) onderzoek gedaan naar risico’s …

Mobile Rapid DNA technology is close to being incorporated into crime scene investigations, with the potential to identify a perpetrator within hours. However, the use of these techniques entails the risk of losing the sample and potential evidence, because the device not only consumes the inserted sample, …

A large body of research has described the influence of context information on forensic decision-making. In this study, we examined the effect of context information on the search for and selection of traces by students (N = 36) and crime scene investigators (N = 58). Participants investigated an ambiguous …

Full text beschikbaar met HU account. Het werken met cliënten in het forensisch sociale domein is uitdagend en interessant. De meeste forensisch sociale professionals kiezen bewust voor dit vak en vinden hun werk waardevol en lonend. Met name het kunnen verkleinen van de kans op recidive en daarmee …

AI wordt al met succes toegepast in E-discovery als machinelearningtechniek ten behoeve van predictive coding om slimmer e-mails en documenten te filteren en te clusteren. AI wordt ook al ingezet door opsporingsinstanties bij het automatisch zoeken naar afbeeldingen met wapens, drugs en bloot en naar …

Working on social services for justice clients. From a retrospective looking ahead to forensic welfare work On the occasion of thirty years of the journal Panopticon, we mainly focus in this article on the tension between emancipation and control in forensic welfare work in Flanders. We portray how …