scholarly journals The analysis of a cold case. Crimes in Astigiano in the 90’s: serial killers or different authors?

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2-3) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Agostino Raso ◽  
Giulia Maestoso
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Sono Stati ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Crime News ◽  
Cold Case ◽  
Modern Technologies

“Cold case” is an unsolved major crime (mainly homicide or abduction), which, after long time, can be re-examined by using modern technologies for their investigation. Unsolved homicides are typical examples of “cold case”. Many crime news’ cases (either recent or past) have undergone new examinations, with the support of forensic science. In some cases, these new activities have led to crimes’ solution. To face this new need, both “Carabinieri” and “Polizia di Stato” have established recently specific units as part of their own Criminal Investigation Department. ---------- Per “cold case”, si intendono i c.d. “casi freddi” o “piste fredde”, con riferimento ai delitti più gravi, irrisolti, che anche a distanza di numerosi anni possono essere oggetto di nuove indagini eseguite in particolare attraverso l’utilizzo delle moderne tecniche investigative. Tra questi rientrano per eccellenza gli omicidi rimasti senza colpevole. Numerosi sono i casi di cronaca più o meno recenti che, specie con il supporto delle scienze forensi, sono stati oggetto di nuove indagini, talvolta risolutive. Per far fronte a tale esigenza sia l’Arma dei Carabinieri che la Polizia di Stato hanno creato di recente specifici Reparti di investigazione, all’interno delle proprie strutture centrali di Polizia Giudiziaria. ---------- Para “casos fríos”, nos referimos a c.d. “Casos fríos” o “pendientes frías”, con referencia a los crímenes más graves, no resueltos, que incluso después de varios años pueden ser objeto de nuevas investigaciones llevadas a cabo, en particular, mediante el uso de técnicas modernas de investigación. Estos incluyen la excelencia para los homicidios que quedan impunes. Existen numerosos casos recientes o recientes que, especialmente con el apoyo de la ciencia forense, han estado sujetos a nuevas investigaciones, a veces resolutivas. Para satisfacer esta necesidad, tanto las Armas de Carabinieri como la Policía del Estado han creado recientemente Departamentos de Investigación específicos dentro de sus propias estructuras de Policía Judicial Central.

The Reliance on Science

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Allsop
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Good Place ◽  
Cold Case

This chapter is concerned with the place of forensic science in cold case reviews and the differences in its positioning when comparing cold case murders and cold case stranger rape reviews. It will be suggested in this chapter that there is a reliance on science in cold case reviews but this reliance is not without issue. However, it is a good place to start an investigation, especially in sexually motivated offences, when it can identify a previously unknown offender, link crimes, or open new investigative lines of enquiry to implicate or eliminate offenders. The issues inherent with relying on forensic science in cold case reviews will also be made clear.

The utilization of forensic science and criminal profiling for capturing serial killers

2011 ◽  
Vol 209 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 160-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. White ◽  
David Lester ◽  
Matthew Gentile ◽  
Juliana Rosenbleeth
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Criminal Profiling

scholarly journals TV SERIES OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION IN CHEMISTRY TEACHING THROUGH OF RESEARCH AND LUDIC EXPERIMENTATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (32) ◽  
pp. 919-929
Author(s):  
J. V. GOMES ◽  
F. V. DA SILVA ◽  
D. F. M. DO CARMO ◽  
P. J. S. MAIA
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Problem Situation ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
Chemistry Teaching ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning

Conventional methods employed to teach chemistry imply a lot of memorization and very little contextualization, i.e., they fail to connect chemistry concepts to students’ everyday lives, which causes them to lose motivation and interest in learning the subject. In order to change this scenario, new methods have been proposed for the teaching of chemistry, such as playful experimentation, to foster contextualization of content and integration with content from other subjects. This study has aimed to evaluate student learning of chemistry concepts by means of experimentation associated to forensic science. To this end, first, students’ previous knowledge of the content was assessed by means of a questionnaire prior to the intervention. Then, they were given a problem-situation, a fictitious crime, which they had to solve. The results indicate that the teaching method under investigation is an effective teaching-learning strategy capable of contextualizing and adapting chemistry concepts to students’ cultural background, since TV crime series have become hugely popular among teenagers.

Local Understandings of Roman Criminal Law and Procedure in Asia Minor

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-184
Author(s):  
Cédric Brélaz
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Funerary Inscriptions ◽  
Roman Administration

This chapter deals with the knowledge provincials had, and the use they made, of Roman criminal procedure in the provinces of Asia Minor during the imperial period. This will be examined through two main categories of evidence: (1) petitions to emperors complaining about Roman soldiers or functionaries’ abuses against local population, (2) funerary inscriptions including provisions claiming that fines should be paid to the imperial treasury in case of desecration. This evidence supports the view that (unlike part of scholarship has been assuming for a long time) Roman criminal procedure still included accusatorial features under the Principate and that a formal accusation was needed for a proper criminal investigation to be launched. It is argued that provincials were deeply aware of what Roman criminal law was and could explicitly refer to some specific provisions in order to defend their own interests and even to challenge decisions made by the Roman administration.

scholarly journals O CASO BRUCE MACARTHUR E O FATOR COMUM ENTRE OS SERIAL KILLERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 279-296
Author(s):  
Carlos Roberto Bacila
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Main Difficulty

This work presents an analysis of the case of Toronto’s serial killer Bruce MacArthur, focusing on identifying a common factor among the cases of the most worldwide known series assassins. That is, what would be the main difficulty in investigating and holding those involved more quickly, from the perspective of the thesis of stigmas as second code. A comparison among these serial killers was made, confirming that common rules related to stigmas in fact interfere in the criminal responsibility of the person involved in serious crimes, in a way that if the person has no stigma, he/she has little visibility to criminal investigation and accountability, although strong evidences that he/she may have committed homicides are present. In the end, I present some suggestions in order to avoid the interference of stigmas such as negative second codes.

How Did the Case of Jack the Ripper help the Metropolitan Police and Forensic Science

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra White
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Metropolitan Police ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jack The Ripper

This study will examine the links between the historical case of Jack the Ripper, the history of forensic science, and the advancement of policing for the Metropolitan Police and forensic in Victorian Britain. Ripper’s crimes were committed in a ‘pre-forensic science’ period, when there were no fingerprints, DNA, or crime scene investigation units to help Detectives capture sophisticated criminals, but through this case forensic science and the Metropolitan Police Force would develop into a more modern form of policing. Jack the Ripper can be considered the prototype of the definition of a serial killer, and his crimes were of a nature that police had little experience with, which meant the police force would have to develop new techniques in criminal investigation. This study will examine the early history of the Metropolitan Police, how the young police force—less than sixty years old by the first murder of Jack the Ripper—was organized, the tools available for investigating murders, how the case of Jack the Ripper led to advancements in criminal investigation and how these new techniques were used to solve other crimes. The Metropolitan Police and British pathologists—such as Dr. Bernard Spilsbury— developed new ways of catching criminals because of the Jack the Ripper case, such as crime scene preservation, profiling and the use of photography to capture crime scenes that would be used to solve the case of Dr. Crippen in 1910 and the Bathtub Murders in 1915.

Effective Police Administration: Criminal Investigations in Japan

2003 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Okabe Masakatsu
Keyword(s):  
Clearance Rate ◽  
Crime Rate ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Criminal Investigations ◽  
Victim Support ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Legal Competence ◽  
The Developed Countries

Japan has maintained a very low crime rate and a correspondingly high clearance rate for a long time, but recently the circumstances surrounding criminal investigation have been changing remarkably. In order to compare criminal investigations among the developed countries, it will be very informative to consider the situation in Japan. This article gives a brief introduction to the conditions for, and characteristics of, police criminal investigations in Japan. The first part explains the background to investigations, for example limited legal competence, the cooperative attitude of citizens and changing circumstances in recent times (the increase in the number of offences, new demands from the public and victim support). In the second part, the characteristics of police criminal investigations are noted, that is organised investigations, forensic investigations and countermeasures under the new criminal situation.

scholarly journals Insulation systems for buildings and structures based on expanded polyethylene

2018 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 01014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav Semenov ◽  
Sergey Kozlov ◽  
Alexey Zhukov ◽  
Karen Ter-Zakaryan ◽  
Ekaterina Zinovieva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Wool ◽  
Expanded Polystyrene ◽  
Insulation Material ◽  
Air Infiltration ◽  
Frame Buildings ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Insulation Systems ◽  
Lock Joint ◽  
Seamless Connection ◽  
Modern Technologies

Insulation systems for buildings and structures imply the use of efficient thermal insulation products based on mineral wool, expanded polystyrene, expanded polyurethane, etc. For a long time, products from non-cross-linked expanded polyethylene were used as insulation for pipelines, reflective insulation, protection against air infiltration, etc. Modern technologies and engineering solutions allowed widening the field of application of non-cross-linked expanded polyethylene (NXLPE) as a construction insulation material. In particular, we can consider a complex of insulation systems for walls, floors and a pitched roof, which allows to form a fully insulating shell of a low-rise building, e.g. a cottage. The novelty of the patented technology Tepofol® and that of the material concerned in comparison with the known solutions is the development of a rolled material based on NXLPE (20 to 150 mm thick) with a lock joint, as well as the technology of seamless connection of individual heat-insulating cloths. The rolls of NXLPE are mechanically fixed to the frame and connected with the lock. One of the advantages of expanded polyethylene, which only few insulating materials possess, is the possibility of forming seamless insulating shells. The article considers a number of insulation systems based on the use of products from expanded polyethylene. In particular, these are the systems of insulation of the walls of frame buildings, the insulation of floors, as well as the insulation of logistics facilities and hangars.

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