Aspects of forensic tactics at the crime scene investigation of murder cases

Autor: Nicolae MĂRGĂRIT
Publicat în: Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2018
Disponibil online: aici.
Abstract: Crime scene investigation is a procedural and criminalistics tactics activity aimed at a direct perception of the place where the crime was committed, at discovering, revealing, holding down, picking up and examining the clues, the evidence, indicating their position and their condition, in order to determine the nature and the circumstances in which the act was committed, as well as the data that are necessary in order to identify the perpetrator. Specialist authors say that crime scene investigation is that initial action of criminal prosecution which is relevant in the whole of pursuits dedicated to solving an antisocial cause and it involves the immediate, direct and comprehensive knowledge of the place where the criminal act was committed. According to the provisions of Article 192 of the Code of Criminal Proceedings, crime scene investigation may be reasonably required by the judicial body at any time this is deemed necessary in order to establish the facts about the situation of the place where the crime was committed, to discover and to hold down the clues related to the crime, to determine the position and the condition of the evidence and the circumstances in which the act was committed. Crime scene investigation, as a procedure or an evidentiary activity, involves the direct perception by the criminal prosecution body or the trial court of the place where the act was committed so as to be able to draw conclusions about its nature, how it was committed, the number of perpetrators, and so on.
Keywords: criminal law; forensic tactics; judicial body; probative activity; criminal field.