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?
Answer:
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 links—events—to happen, and so on, until the events of the crime fully describe the crime itself. For our purposes—and to keep this manageable—we will stick with the temporal chain. This is where a technique called hybrid crime assessment enters the picture.
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