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Investigarea criminalistică a noilor forme de criminalitate din timpul pandemiei: între oportunitate și operativitate
Forensic Investigation of the New Forms of Criminality During the Pandemic Crisis: Between Opportunity and Efficiency

Author(s): Delia Magherescu
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Sociology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Universul Juridic
Keywords: new forms of criminality; serious crimes; criminal cases; forensic investigation; new methods of investigation;
Summary/Abstract: Developing rapidly new forms of criminality is usually based on several premises, which together concur within a common framework, having their own definitively features. This framework is most of the time characterized by the new tendencies of changing mechanisms in particular areas of activity. These features have prevalently met with the aspect of delimiting new forms of criminality, which have been highlighted and developed in the context of social changes as well, they being produced by the pandemic crisis caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In the current article, the new forms of criminality which were committed during the period of two years from the pandemic to nowadays will be discussed, along with the serious forms of criminality which, although do not have achieved new feature, have been developed on the current crisis. This paper approaches the topic from the point of view of the forensic investigation of the new forms of criminality, the analysis being insisted on the particularities which feature such a technical, scientific and methodological approach, belonging to forensic science. All these aspects will be taken into account from the perspectives of opportunity and necessity of the forensic investigation in this area of research.

  • Page Range: 315-322
  • Page Count: 8
  • Publication Year: 2021
  • Language: Romanian