CSI Crime Investigation
A car accident claims the life of a driver on his way to work. A fire breaks up in the basement, devastating an apartment building. The listed cases are samples of potential crime scenes. Crime scene investigation involves the conduction of systematic examination of the scene areas where the crime scene investigators unfold and uncover all the physical evidence that is available to aid them in the identification of what happened and the parties that were involved. The process should be conducted carefully and thoroughly for assurance that the significant evidence is collected while the fragile evidence is no longer destroyed within the process of collection.
On June 2nd 2016, 13-year-old Jessie mark was found near a bike path along Waukesha and was profusely bleeding from the 18 stab wounds on his body. Mark, who survived the attack, explained to the authorities that he was stabbed two of his 13-year-old allies, John and James. On the scene, there were remains of bhang filters and syringes suspected to be used in the injection of drug substances. Also, a knife lay on the side with bloodstains. The boys told the authorities that they engaged in the attack since they were afraid of the slender man.this was an urban legend which had gone viral online some years back. John and James were both arrested and were faced with charges of attempted homicide. After the prosecution, John and James were found not to be the guilty reason being they were experiencing a mental illness or defect and were sentenced to involuntary psychiatric treatment. Another part of the law found them with an offence of drug abuse subjecting them to a six-month sentence in a rehabilitation centre.
Typically the police officers are the first person who came into the aid of the young boy, who was attacked having 18 stabs of wounds in his body. Subjecting the police personnel’s to ask for an ambulance to save the life of the lifeless young boy who was suffering from the stabs and bleeding profusely and required immediate medical attention. Securing the crime scene is the next step that the police officers focus on to ensure that none of the evidence is destroyed; the bhang filters and syringes. The district attorney may be present to help to determine whether the investigators may need any search warrants to ensure proceeding with the investigations, thus obtaining the permits from a judge (Stow 2004).in scenarios that require acquiring of evidence from the expert analysis a specialist is called in for instance in our crime specialist intervention is critical in the evaluation of the stabs and from which source did they come from or tools used to commit the crime. After that, the detectives start interviewing the witness and consultation with the CSI department to get the truth of the matter. For example, in our case, the detectives will embark on interviewing the offended victim (Mark) after he gained recovery.
The crime had the content of illegality since the evidence that is collected on the crime scene shows out that the victims had involved themselves in taking drugs before the offence occurred. My case fell under the law outline as a consensual crime which describes the behaviours that people engage themselves with willingly and voluntarily despite the practices they engage in violating the law. For instance, in our case, it was assumed that the victims involved themselves in the consumption of illegal drugs which is against the governing rules of the United States. Consensual crimes are widely committed by the millennial generation who have been obsessed by technology, and the exposure to an international culture that has subjected them to violation of laws by exercising in activities they feel are right for them. Despite the actions being prohibited by the government due to the influence of western culture.
Variables relating to criminality
Gender and biology
Crime occurrence is often experienced within the second and third decades in one’s life, where males happen to be involved in crimes and becoming more violent than females. In contrast, the majority of the persons who involve themselves in violent crime have been evaluated to be influenced by the increased usage of drugs and substance abuse (Gailliot 2014).
Race ethnicity and immigration
Factors that are associated with the development of crime includes; race and status as an immigrant where in some countries based on ethnicity and geographical locations experience more crime rates when compared to the homogenous areas.
Social learning theory
This theory of crime cites its argument that some of the individuals learn how to commit crimes by the same process that others learn how to conform. The theory creates assumptions that at birth, no individuals have any record of involvement in any wrongdoing. Then the theory asks out a question of why people then commit crimes. The reason is that process of learning that involves the interaction of people where they exchange ideas thoughts, behaviour, as well as the environment, develops the adoption of activities that one was not engaged in before (Akers and Jensen 2007). For instance in our case for the teenage boys to be suspected to be involved in drug abuse is mainly developed to by the interaction in schools where they learn new ideas and take them back to their country or community. Regardless of whether they are prohibited in the new environment, thus creating a crime that is punishable by the stipulation given by the law.
Biological theories
These theories explain the development of behaviours that are contrary to the expectations of society by the examination of individual characteristics. Poor dieting bad brain chemistry, mental illness are some of the attributes that influence individuals to engage in crime. In our case, the boys (John and James) argue that they defended themselves by stabbing the other boy (Mark) since they thought he was the slender man. There had been stories trending all over that the slender man had characteristics of abducting and even traumatizing specifically children. This was just works of fiction and had no basis that there existed something like that but typically online composition. The lawmakers evaluated the argument of the boys. They came to a conclusion that they committed no crime, but they were subject of illusion and hallucination focusing on the evidence that was collected on the crime scene (Hahn, Posick, and Rocque 2016). This theory tries to bring out the perception that some people frequently commits a crime due to the decision they develop to according to their mindset at present and what they expect to benefit from the reaction made.
Understanding of the concepts presented in the theories that describe crime scene investigation helps the investigator or the law enforcing agent to focus on the basis that has developed or subjected the individual to conduct such crimes. In other scenarios, the user may also raise critics where he or she feels the developer of the theory seems to have crossed the boundaries. At times the evidence being searched for by the theories may not be present in some cases but still the claims under certain conditions current commitment of a crime.
Crime scene investigation helps the investigators in the conduction of the systematic examination of the scene areas where the crime scene investigators unfold and uncover all the physical evidences that are significant and available in the identification of the occurrences within the crime scene. And the application of the relevant skills theories and strategies in ensuring that they can create and make a prediction of what happened at the crime scene despite their absence during the event occurrence thus helping out in the realization of the appropriate judgment for the trials made on a specific crime.
References
Stow, Karen. 2004. “Crime Scene Investigation.” Science & Justice 44(4):237–38.
Gailliot, Matt. 2014. “Having Used Self-Control Increases Criminality.” Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 1(5):29–33.
Akers, Ronad L. and Gary F. Jensen. 2007. Social Learning Theory and the Explanation of Crime. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
Hahn, Nicole, Chad Posick, and Michael Rocque. 2016. The Criminal Brain : Understanding Biological Theories of Crime. New York: New York University Press.
Schanz, Kimberley and C. Gabrielle Salfati. 2016. “The CSI Effect and Its Controversial Existence and Impact: A Mixed Methods Review.” Crime Psychology Review 2(1):60–79.
Cavender, Gray and Sarah K. Deutsch. 2007. “CSI and Moral Authority: The Police and Science.” Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 3(1):67–81.