Abstract
This chapter discusses the potential vulnerabilities for police forces at crime scenes: if things are missed at the outset the consequences can be disastrous. Such consequences include injustices to victims and their families, miscarriages of justice, costly reviews, damage to reputations and damage to public confidence in the police. The concepts of the CSI effect, confirmation bias, staged crime scenes and signature behaviour are further explored as prospective explanations why investigators are at risk of missing inconsistencies (‘red flags’), resulting in the investigation being driven in the wrong direction and thus arriving at the wrong conclusion. Key high-profile cases are given as examples. Finally, the chapter asks if police have a new breed of offender to contend with, and, if so, is a new breed of investigator now needed?
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