Crime reconstruction
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Crime scene reconstruction is the use of scientific methods, physical evidence, deductive reasoning, and their interrelationships to gain explicit knowledge of the series of events that surround the commission of a crime. It is a discplined and principled approach towards objectively understanding a crime scene. Using evidence found at proper crime scene you can reconstruct what happened and possibly find more clues.
Forensics branch out into a variety of fields. However, crime reconstruction is one of the most important contributors to a crime scene. Crime reconstruction uses the scientific method, physical evidence, and deductive reasoning and their ineterrelationships to acquire knowlegde to the events that may have led up to the crime and what exactly happened at a specific crime scene. When focusing on other types of forensics, there are three areas of importance in finding the answers and determing the components of a crime scene which are specific incident reconstruction, event reconstruction, and the most important component, physical evidence reconstruction. Specific incident reconstruction deals with traffic accidents, bombings, homicides, and things of that nature. Event reconstruction looks at connections, sequence, and identity. Physical evidence reconstuction focuses on firearms, blood, glass, and other objects that can be stripped for DNA. It is important to reconstruct a crime scene because if one has no knowledge as to what took place and how it took place, they lack the ability to figure out who and why. Crime reconstrution helps interpret physical evidence. It is an aid to help formulate a hypothesis and arrive at a conclusion about a certain crime. Forensic specialists all come together with their different forms of evidence such as photos, sketches, and other useful things gathered from the crime scence to paint a vivid picture which makes it possible to retrace a crime that took place.
