Fysieke en digitale sporen worden vaak gebruikt in strafzaken om misdrijven te bewijzen. Fysieke sporen worden meestal geanalyseerd om daarmee de bron van het spoor te achterhalen, maar forensisch onderzoekers toetsen de laatste jaren vaker hypothesen op activiteitniveau aan de hand van fysieke sporen. …

De tientallen miljarden slimme apparaten en smartphones die nu al het Internet of Things (IoT) vormen, laten een enorme hoeveelheid digitale sporen na. Een deel daarvan is zeer bruikbaar voor forensisch onderzoek. Met behulp van data science kunnen veel betere analyses van die sporen worden gedaan. niet …

Cybercrime is een relatief nieuw onderwerp dat tal van vragen oproept. Welke delicten vallen onder de verzamelnaam 'cybercrime'? Wie zijn de nieuwe daders? Wie zijn de slachtoffers? Voor welke uitdagingen staan politie, private partners en lokale overheden bij de aanpak van dit fenomeen? In dit nummer …

Fingerprints are widely used in forensic science for individualization purposes. However, not every fingermark found at a crime scene is suitable for comparison, for instance due to distortion of ridge detail, or when the reference fingerprint is not in the database. To still retrieve information from …

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 …

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.

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 …

This study replicates previous research that investigated the influence of rapid identification information on the interpretation of a crime scene conducted with English crime scene investigators (CSIs). Given the special circumstances under which CSIs in one country operate, the present study investigates …

In this paper, we describe a promising method to evaluate the location of fingermarks on two-dimensional objects, which provides valuable information for the evaluation of fingermarks at activity level. For this purpose, an experiment with pillowcases was conducted at the Dutch music festival Lowlands, …

In this study, we examined how the provision of contextual informa- tion and the ability to ask questions and obtain feedback affected mock investigators' interpretation of a crime scene. Participants were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 conditions in a 2 × 2 design and assessed two photographs of the same …