Homework Clinic
Social Science Clinic => Law and Politics => Topic started by: tiara099 on Aug 17, 2018
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Describe the process of using each generation of mobile device to create a timeline and correlate events on the device.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2
Describe the two different types of chain of evidence and how they can be used in the investigative process.
What will be an ideal response?
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Answer to Question 1
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The initial generation of devices contained little information to catalog events and provided as much information as landline telephones did, because these devices could only communicate via telephone calls and provide similar information to timeline events that landline telephones could provide.
The second and third generations of mobile phones introduced several adventitious features such as text messages, on-device calendars, in-depth call logs, etc. These components could all be used to create a catalog of events in order to determine when or even where specific events have taken place.
The current (4G) generation transformed this to an even further extent with the ability to synchronize and use social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter on individual devices. Combining this with additional downloadable software from application marketplaces can provide a nearly limitless collection of information that could be used to create an extremely detailed timeline of events.
Answer to Question 2
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Chain of evidence (as opposed to chain of custody) describes the events and concomitant evidence that make up the events of the crime. There are two types of chains of evidence. Temporal chains show events in the order in time in which they occurred. This is commonly called a timeline and is the easiest way for laypeople, such as triers of fact, to visualize a crime, especially a complicated one.
Causal chains of evidence describe the events of a crime in terms of cause and effect. The links in the chain are the pieces of evidence, and they are tied together based upon how one link affects one or more other links. We could say that our first link causes the next link to occur, which in turn causes two other linkseventsto happen, and so on, until the events of the crime fully describe the crime itself. For our purposesand to keep this manageablewe will stick with the temporal chain. This is where a technique called hybrid crime assessment enters the picture.
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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again
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Great! Please up vote :D