Digital evidence experts in the law enforcement community: understanding the use of forensics examiners by police agencies

Autor: Brooke Nodeland, Scott H. Belshaw
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Security Journal. 35:248-262
ISSN: 1743-4645
0955-1662
DOI: 10.1057/s41284-020-00276-w
Popis: Mobile phones are often used in criminal enterprises as well as by individual offenders. In criminal cases, almost 80–90% of the cases criminal computer forensic examiners work on are related to child pornography (Nodeland et al. J Crim Justice Educ 30:71–90, 2018). In an effort to fight electronic crime and to collect digital evidence for criminal acts, law enforcement agencies are incorporating the collection of tools for analysis of digital evidence, also known as computer forensics, into their law enforcement infrastructure. Police agencies are challenged with the need to train officers to collect digital evidence and keep up with large and evolving technologies such as computer operating systems and cell phone technologies. Digital evidence is now being used to prosecute all types of crimes. Skilled officers and examiners are needed to examine this critical need in the criminal justice system. This research surveyed 59 (N = 59) Texas police agencies in their use of digital forensic examiners. The findings reflect that numerous agencies often use a part-time police officer/examiner to investigate the digital evidence that comes into the agency that can limit the expertise in the agency. Implications for this research are discussed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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