Situating forensic traces in time.
- Weyermann C University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. celine.weyermann@unil.ch
- Ribaux O
- 2012-05-16
Published in:
- Science & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society. - 2012
English
Situating events and traces in time is an essential problem in investigations. To date, among the typical questions issued in forensic science, time has generally been unexplored. The reason for this can be traced to the complexity of the overall problem, addressed by several scientists in very limited projects usually stimulated by a specific case. Considering that such issues are recurrent and transcending the treatment of each trace separately, the formalisation of a framework to address dating issues in criminal investigation is undeniably needed. Through an iterative process consisting of extracting recurrent aspects discovered from the study of problems encountered by practitioners and reported in the literature, common mechanisms were extracted and provide understanding of underlying factors encountered in forensic practise. Three complementary approaches are thus highlighted and described to formalise a preliminary framework that can be applied for the dating of traces, objects, persons and indirectly events.
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- DOI 10.1016/j.scijus.2011.09.003
- PMID 22583497
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- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/257229
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