Third Party Electronic and DNA Evidence in Property Crimes

This week’s article is a bit of an “outtake” from “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2022.100296" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">A survey of prosecutors and investigators using digital evidence: A starting point</a>,” which compared prosecutor use of digital evidence for a variety of crime types, not just “obvious” ones like crimes against children or financial crimes. Thus property crimes may not have made obvious sense to include. The survey did show that investigators and prosecutors do rely on digital forensic and third-party electronic data for these crimes, though not to the same extent as the other types of crime. But remember: this survey went out in late 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, before Russia’s mass-scale invasion of Ukraine, and long before “inflation” tightened people’s wallets even more than stagnant wages. <a href="https://medium.com/forensic-horizons/third-party-electronic-and-dna-evidence-in-property-crimes-ffffeff40358">Website</a>