Guiding principles on organizing and carrying out the crime scene investigation Cover Image

Principii directoare privind organizarea și desfășurarea activității de cercetare la fața locului
Guiding principles on organizing and carrying out the crime scene investigation

Author(s): Delia Magherescu
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law
Published by: Editura Universităţii George Bacovia din Bacău România
Keywords: crime scene investigation; guiding principles; forensic tactics; criminal investigation; penal proceedings;

Summary/Abstract: The crime scene investigation is a judicial stage basically achieved in the investigation phase of the penal proceedings. During the crime scene investigation the judicial bodies are looking for discovering crimes' traces in order to gather evidence and identify the perpetrators. The main aim of the judicial activity is subordinated to the entire penal proceedings ones, consisting in bringing charged the persons who committed offenses, in accordance with their guilt and avoiding the innocent persons' criminal liability. The current paper focuses on the aspects of identifying the most relevant guiding principles which are priority applied during the crime scene investigation. Knowing the fact that the crime scene is full of evidence, the judicial bodies must proceed to organizing the activity of criminal investigation in respecting all fundamental principles, such as objectiveness, efficiency, rapidity, opportunity, confidentiality, whose violation generates serious unbalance both in achieving the criminal investigation aims and the penal proceedings entirely.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 415-434
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English, Romanian