Forensics
The collective term forensic science summarizes disciplines that deal with the phenomenon of crime . The name is derived from the Latin crimen , which here translates as crime .
It is between legal ( criminal law and criminal procedure ) and not legal ( Criminalistics and Criminology distinguished Criminology). Criminal law deals with how an event is to be judged dogmatically from the perspective of law. The law of criminal procedure regulates how this event is brought to a binding conclusion for the legal community in a legal process. Criminologists and criminologists, on the other hand, do not have to be lawyers. Criminalistics is the science of the means and methods of investigating and fighting crime. Criminologists are investigating a situation, they are mostly police officers. The interest of criminologists, on the other hand, goes far beyond the individual criminal case. Criminology looks for laws in the behavior of people who are involved in a crime, be it as victims, perpetrators, investigators or members of the judiciary. The criminological view is more social science , it applies to both sides, that of crime and that of crime control.
In some representations, the various forensic disciplines are also counted among the (non-legal) criminal sciences . This includes the work areas in which criminal acts are systematically identified or excluded, as well as analyzed or reconstructed.
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Neubacher : Criminology . 3rd edition, Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8487-3036-0 , p. 21 (section: “Kriminalwissenschaften, Krimiologie und Kriminalistik”).
- ↑ Christoph Keller: Introduction to Criminology . Section: system of criminal sciences . In: ders. (Ed.): Basic textbook for criminalistics. Crime detection and control strategies and techniques . Verlag Deutsche Polizeiliteratur, Hilden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8011-0826-7 , pp. 57–67, here p. 57 ( online , PDF).
