crime investigation
Solving criminal cases
Crime investigation is the process of examining evidence, interviewing witnesses, and gathering facts to solve a crime.
Law enforcement conducts investigations to identify suspects and build cases for prosecution.
The term often appears in procedural dramas and news coverage: The crime investigation revealed new DNA evidence.
Also called criminal investigation.
- probable causeLegal threshold for searches
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
- criminal profilingInferring suspect characteristics behaviorally
- DNA profilingIdentification via genetic sequences
- victimologyStudy of those harmed
surveillance · chain of custody · homicide · detective · undercover operations · inside job · cold case · person of interest · prime suspect · evidence collection · fingerprint analysis · search warrants · digital forensics · Miranda rights · toxicology reports · behavioral patterns · witness interviews · admissible evidence
- Criminal Investigationdetective, forensics, investigator, evidence collection, interrogation
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- Canadian PoliceRCMP, Mounties, provincial police, municipal police, chief of police
- prosecutionprosecutor, district attorney, DA, prosecution, public prosecutors
crime investigationperpetration
Committing an offense
sentencing · criminal act · acquittal · exoneration · criminal sentencing
crime investigationcover-up
Hiding wrongdoing from public
criminal activity · lawbreaking · criminal enterprise · obstruction of justice · evidence tampering