ANALIZA KRYMINALNA W CELACH DOWODO- WYCH I ROLA ANALITYKA JAKO BIEGŁEGO SĄDOWEGO
CRIMINAL ANALYSIS FOR EVIDENCE PURPOSES AND THE ROLE OF THE ANALYST AS A FORENSIC EXPERT

Summary/Abstract: This study is devoted to the subject of crime analysis, which, in the most general terms, consists in data extraction. The crime analysis is an investigation method that searches for the links be- tween information on criminal events and all the data coming from other sources. It is used in the work of courts and law enforcement agencies. The issue of criminal analysis is the area on the border of forensics and the law of evidence. Crime analysis is used in particular in multi- threaded, territorially extensive cases involving organized crime groups, characterized by a com- plicated structure of connections. Crime analysis is applicable in cases where traditional inves- tigative methods fail. The use of crime analysis aims to establish the relationship between the facts. It allows to build, verify and eliminate individual investigative versions. The article deals with the nature of the evidence-based crime analysis, the procedural position of a criminal ana- lyst and the topic of criminal analysis as a forensic expert opinion. The literature reviewed in terms of these issues proves that authors present diverse opinions on crime analysis used as evidence, the analyst as an expert and the results of his work in the form of an analytical report. It is a fact that forensic analysts sometimes have the status of a forensic expert, and the results of their work may be treated as constitute evidence. It all depends on what information crime analysis brings to the case in terms of formal and substantive matter.

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