Preliminary investigations do not necessarily yield enough information to prosecute a criminal case.
Despite a
thorough preliminary investigation, many cases require a follow-up investigation. Research articles within
the past three years on crime scene investigation.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
- Assemble a set of guidelines on conducting a preliminary investigation for a criminal case.
- Discuss at least one-way computer-aided investigations can be used in order to conduct an efficient
followup investigation. Provide a rationale to support the response.
- Select two major crimes (e.g., human-trafficking, domestic violence, abuse of the elderly, sex-related
crimes) and compare and contrast the key differences in reporting the two major crimes that you
selected.
- Determine the four most important characteristics of an effective criminal investigator and discuss the
importance of each characteristic you determined. - Support or critique the argument that the criminal investigation process should maintain the balance
regarding freedom of information through media outlets and privacy rights of alleged perpetrators of
crime.
Provide a rationale to support the response.
- Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar types of
websites do not qualify as academic resources.