What Does Criminal Investigation Mean To You?

· What does criminal investigation mean to you?

· Why are criminal investigations important?

· What purpose do they serve?

· Finally, apply at least 1 biblical passage to the concept or practice of criminal investigation.

· Explain why you picked the passage and what it means to you.

A criminal investigation is a discipline, an applied science, conducted by law enforcement for the purpose of gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses and persons of interest; ergo, to discover, collect, and safeguard admissible evidence until the case is ready for prosecution or closed. In a nutshell, an investigation is a situation where there are potential criminal charges involved. Additionally, the steps involved in an investigation and prosecution of a criminal case vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

Being as investigators are evaluated on the basis of the reports they produce, it is safe to say that writing ability is a very important part of a criminal investigation. Evidence collected must be admissible, so the prosecution can prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. Without criminal investigations a victim’s perpetrator could not be brought to justice that could result in an increase of crime; since when boundaries and accountability are eliminated, many humans will choose the course of least resistance due to their inherent sinful nature.

In Exodus 21 a reoccurring theme is restitution. If a person is harmed, stolen from, the victim receives restitution from the perpetrator. Exodus 20 says that the sanction for murder is death; however, death has two elements, intentional and unjust. Deliberate homicide sanctioned death; whereas, accidental manslaughter resulted in the perpetrator fleeing to a city of refuge (Numbers 35). In order to receive a conviction, two or more eyewitnesses was required (Deut.