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This 12 page paper provides an overview of the changing paradigms for criminal investigations. This paper considers the factors that are currently influencing the way in which investigations are being conducted, and proposes a change towards an intelligence-based, or experiential, investigation paradigm. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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affairs. In the past, investigations often began as a result of criminal activity or the presence of a threat, essentially defining an incident-driven paradigm for investigatory action. Response,
rather than strategic planning, has been the normative function of investigators for centuries. Over the past two decades, though, changes in the availability of information, in the approaches to
investigation and in information technology have all served to determine the plausibility of a paradigmatic shift towards an experiential or information-driven approach to investigations.
In considering the changing nature of investigations and the emerging role that investigators must take as criminal justice professionals, it is necessary first to consider the changing information that
is available and the way in which information and experience serve to determine investigatory strategies. By recognizing the incident-driven approaches of the past, it is possible to define a
new experiential approach to investigations that utilizes all of the possible technological systems to benefit this profession as a whole. Criminal
Investigations and New Information Systems The issue of crime and criminality in the United States has been a considerable focus in recent years,
extending from an increasing prison population and the struggles of the government to address this problem (Brann, 1993). Casa (1999) argued that approximately 1.8 million people, about 1 out
of every 150 people in the United States, is currently incarcerated, and this population consists of twice the number just 12 years ago (p. 15). Further, 1.96 million American
children have at least one parent or a close relative in jail on any given day, and over 5 million children have parents who have been incarcerated at one time
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