Criminology UK
Overall question: Consider complex criminal investigation from an international perspective (defined here as where the crime is committed wholly outside of the UK or where the crime crosses international borders). Using case examples, discuss whether the senior detective’s investigative challenges differ according to where the crime takes place. Your answers must use an academic tone, be evidence-based and supported by the academic literature, using Harvard referencing. [see first posting]
Request:
7 topics that need case examples from an international perspective are:
1 The use of DNA: Interpol DNA handbook and 1 example??? See pdf
2. Impact of delay: Madeline McCann when Portugal police do not assist the UK investigators and time runs out
3. Global policing and the rule of law/human rights: see pdf
4. International crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kriss_Donald. Use an example where there is no treaty between the UK and the country…
Kriss Donald (2 July 1988 – 15 March 2004) was a 15-year-old white Scottish boy who was kidnapped and murdered in Glasgow in 2004 by a gang of men of Pakistani origin, some of whom fled to Pakistan after the crime.[3][4][5][6][7] Daanish Zahid, Imran Shahid, Zeeshan Shahid and Mohammed Faisal Mustaq were later found guilty of racially motivated murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.[4][5]
The case, which featured the first-ever conviction for racially motivated murder in Scotland, is cited in two newspaper articles as an example of the lack of attention the media and society give to white sufferers of racist attacks compared to that given to ethnic minorities.[8][9] It is also suggested the crime demonstrates how society has been forced to redefine racism so as to no longer exclude white victims.[10]
5. Child pornography
Operation Ore was a British police operation that commenced in 1999 following information received from US law enforcement, which was intended to prosecute thousands of users of a website reportedly featuring child pornography. It was the United Kingdom’s biggest ever computer crime investigation,[1] leading to 7,250 suspects identified, 4,283 homes searched, 3,744 arrests, 1,848 charged, 1,451 convictions, 493 cautioned and 140 children removed from suspected dangerous situations[2] and an estimated 33[3] suicides.[4][5] Operation Ore identified and prosecuted some sex offenders, but the validity of the police procedures was later questioned, as errors in the investigations resulted in many false arrests.[3]
Operation Ore followed the similar crackdown in the United States, called Operation Avalanche; in the US 100 people were charged from the 35,000 US access records available.[6] In total 390,000 individuals in over 60 countries were found to have accessed material in the combined investigations.[7]
6. criminal activity that implicates UK such as Hong Kong.
