SPECIAL CRIME INVESTIGATION

WITH

FORENSIC MEDICINE

Submitted by;

Cheenie Rose A. Magluyan

BS Crim 2-F
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IDENTIFICATION:

Special crime investigation 1. It is the investigation of cases that are unique, and often
require special training to fully understand their broad significance.

Preliminary investigation 2. It involves the first exposure of the criminal offense to the
investigative effort of the police or any other law enforcement agencies.

In-depth investigation 3. It involves the second investigative state of the criminal

offense or the conduct of follow-up or continuing investigation.

Concluding investigation 4. This is the final stage, and it is the outgrowth of the other
stages of investigation.

Investigative monitoring system 5. It is set-up to give police administrators continues feedback

on the investigative process, and the quality of personnel performance relatively with investigative
functions.

Solvability factors 6. During the conduct of special crime investigation, it is

becoming a widely used tool in determining the success of criminal investigation.

Managing special crime investigation 7. Initial investigation, case screening, continuing investigation,
police-prosecutor relations, and investigative monitoring system, is called what in special crime
investigation?

Testify effectively in court 8. These responsibilities are to be performed by the investigator

in handling special crime investigation, that is, determine if the crime is committed, verify jurisdiction,
discover facts and evidences, recover stolen property, identify and locate perpetrator, aid in their
prosecution, and testify effectively in court.

Recover stolen property 9. It has a significant or having parallel with establishing the
positive identity of the perpetrator.

“closing a case” 10. A negative answer to all or most of the “solvability factors”
constitutes grounds for “closing a case”?
ENUMERATION: List five (5) significant elements of managing special crime investigation.

11. Initial investigation

12. Case screening

13. Continuing investigation

14. Police-prosecutor relations

15. Investigative monitoring system

ESSAY: Briefly explain the sources of information needed in reconstructing the past.

The source of information needed in reconstructing the past is available through various sources,
that is people, physical evidence and records. Special crime investigators who are concerned with the
immediate past often put all these various sources to use; People, as long as general, specific, or intimate
knowledge concerning the individual endures, the careful investigator identifies and exploits all potential
sources. The physical evidence, any object, thing or article of a material in nature is potential physical
evidence. Records, are form of physical evidence, their purpose is being the acquisition of facts. They
receive separate treatment, however, because they are widely scattered, voluminous, and have specialists
devoting full time to their storage and retrieval, this can prove useful in a criminal investigation.
 CHAPTER 2 REVIEW

IDENTIFICATION:

Homicide 1. It is the unlawful killing of any person, and which is neither parricide
nor murder nor infanticide.

Homicide 2. The mode of death is homicide if one person has intentionally caused
another person to die, and many different situations can result in this kind of death.

Emotional factors 3. The motive is consisting of anger, jealousy, revenge, envy, hatred, and
it can provoke a person to commit homicide or premeditated murder.

Self-protection 4. As a reason for homicide it should be recognized as feasibility in

specific situations and one example would be the criminal whose escape is interrupted or hampered by the
victim.

Motiveless crime 5. It is senseless homicide wherein a stranger killing another stranger and
those other persons other than the intended victim is killed.

Records 6. In homicide cases, the records can be a rich source of physical

evidence; if care is taken by the investigator in recognizing it.

Records 7. When examined by the forensic scientist, the records can provide
evidence of probative value in conduct of homicide investigation.

Medical autopsy 8. The forensic pathologist, using medical autopsy, determines the
causes and manner of death, and also evaluates the circumstances of death.

Reconstruct a homicide 9. Answers to the questions arising from the autopsy evidence and its
interpretation will help the homicide investigator to reconstruct a homicide.

A dying declaration 10. It is also known as an ante-mortem statement, and it is hearsay

evidence, although generally not accepted, but this kind of statement is accepted as evidence.

ENUMERATION: Give the three (3) questions to be asked of the victim during the taking of dying
declaration.

11. What is your name?

12. Where do you live?

13. Do you now believe that you are about to die?

List two (2) pieces of evidence that can link the perpetrator to the crime scene or victim.

14. Evidence brought to and left at the crime scene.

15. Evidence taken deliberately or accidentally from the crime scene.

ESSAY: 16-20 briefly explain the “corpus delicti” of the crime of homicide.

The corpus delicti of the crime of homicide is the collection of basics facts establishing that a
crime has been committed, and that some other person is responsible. Regardless of the classification, the
investigator must marshal evidence for each element of the corpus delicti in order for the prosecution to

obtain indictment and conviction of the accused in court.

 CHAPTER 3 REVIEW

IDENTIFICATION:

Suicide 1. It is an act with a fatal outcome that is deliberately initiated and performed
by the individual person with the knowledge or expectation of its fatal outcome.

Drowning 2. It is the act of submerging oneself in water to prevent breathing and

deprive the brain of oxygen.

Strangulation 3. It can be carried out by people with limited physical ability, and it is
different with hanging due to the fact that is does not require complete suspension of the body.

Aggressive behavior 4. This refers to any behavior that is hostile, destructive or violent, and
generally has the potential to inflict injury or damage to oneself.

Dents or scratches 5. In suicide involving handgun, the floor or ground should be examined for
dents or scratches resulting from the impact.

Poisoning 6. It remains the most common method of suicide, especially among

women. It is perceived as being less traumatic than other methods and with the widespread availability of
alcohol and drugs, the means are easy to obtain.

Shocked look 7. Death from firearms may result in a shocked look of expressions of the
face of the victim. After all, that is what the consequence of dying in a gunshot injury.

Drug overdose 8. A drug overdose may likely involve a smile on the face, and it is the
rise of temperature of the body after death due to rapid and early putrefactive changes or some internal
changes.

Sardonic grin 9. Some types of poisonings produce such violent convulsions, that the
back arches and this causes the facial muscles to contort into a sardonic grin.

Mental disorder 10. In cases of mental disorder, it is common that killing family members
precedes the suicide.
ENUMERATION: Give the several risks factors considered in those individual persons committing
suicide.

11. Aggressive behavior

12. Disruptive behavior

13. Drug abuse

14. Psychological disorder

15. Lack of support Network

ESSAY: 16-20 briefly explain the distinction between strangulation marks and hanging marks.

The distinction between strangulation marks and hanging marks, look at the body, and observe
the poise. Look at the wound looks for defensive marks on the knuckles or pieces of skin under the
fingernails, anything that might indicate that a struggled ensued. Examine the skin surfaces for wounds,
pinpricks and needle marks. If they the victim’s been strangled, determine if there are any ligature marks.
Strangulation marks are horizontal around the neck, and hanging marks are on an upward angle to the
back of the head.