Chapter 10

Violent Crime and Digital Evidence

Eoghan Casey and Terrance Maguire

Contents

Even when no proverbial smoking gun exists in physical space, the digital forensic evidence may reveal the associations, actions, and sequence of activity to enable the reconstruction of events and make the difference between guilt or innocence.

Turvey and Heberling (2007)

Violent crimes are challenging to investigate not only because of the severe behavior that is involved, but also the complexity of formative events and relationships. That is to say, these types of crimes do not happen in a vacuum. For instance, the victim may know or have a relationship ...

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