August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
16h 8m
English
The actions that are taken—or are not taken—in the first hours of any investigation are often the ones that will later help or hinder the search for evidence. Far too often, the first people on the scene know too little about collecting and archiving digital evidence, and they do more harm than good. In recent years, law enforcement agencies around the world have spent a great deal of time and money training personnel to deal with digital information at the scene of a crime in a more effective manner. In 2001, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published a paper entitled Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders as a preliminary set of guidelines for law enforcement to ...