Crime Scene Management
Definition
The organised approach to protecting, documenting, and processing a crime scene to maximise the recovery of physical evidence without introducing contamination or destroying fragile material.
Related terms
- Chain of Custody
- The documented chronological record of who collected, handled, transferred, and examined a piece of evidence. For digital evidence, chain of custody includes...
- Expert Witness
- A person whose specialised knowledge is accepted by a court and who gives opinion evidence, not just factual evidence. Forensic auditors frequently...
- Forensic Submission
- The formal package of exhibits, case notes, and legal authorities that moves from an investigating agency to a laboratory, establishing what examination...
- Locard's Exchange Principle
- The foundational idea that every contact between two surfaces moves material in both directions, giving the forensic process its starting premise: physical...
- Reconstruction
- The stage at which all analytical findings are assembled into a coherent account of how an event unfolded. Reconstruction draws on scene...
Explained in
- The Forensic Process: From Scene to CourtroomThe organised approach to protecting, documenting, and processing a crime scene to maximise the recovery of physical evidence without introducing contamination...