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methodical skills and knowledge, resources, and equipment are used aimed to a most urgent and
comprehensive data collection and analyses of available data and information about the perpetrator and the
offense from material and personnel resources. The purpose of these actions is to shed light about the
criminal part and the
perpetrator, to collect the information, data and facts to the level of “reasonable doubt”
that the person committed crime, and to deliver the report to the prosecutor about all these aspects (Sijericic-
Colic, Hadziomeragic, 2005, p. 587). Intervention criteria also include the investigation. Investigation is an
activity of proving which consists of a sequence of procedures like criminal observation, interrogation,
description, and fixing and registration fact on the status of material objects in a crime scene. A crime scene
investigation does not only represent an entry to the crime scene.
In some cases, when
investigation is carried
out on the body of victim or perpetrator, it will be carried out in the medical facilities, official premises, and
alike (Bojnic, 2007, p. 243), and with respect of the crime scene subject, there are three basic investigation
types: crime scene investigation, case investigation (which includes document and technical registration),
and investigation of persons (individuals) (Bojanic, 2007, p. 258 - 259). During the investigation, clues can
be found on the offenses side, on the victim or perpetrator, and could be biological, chemical, physical and
other clues. The clues of victim could be
traces of harlotry, violence traces and
contact traces; that is why the
physical search of a victim is a very important component in crime investigation. The crime scene is “a place
where the act of crime happened”, and thus, the victim‟s body is physical extension of the crime scene.
Time, environment, and individual physical and chemical body characteristics of a victim are factors which
degrade physical evidence (Turvey B., 2008: 188). The sooner the forensic search of a victim is carried out,
the bigger is the chance to find physical evidence on it; that is why it is necessary to conduct series of
expertise: forensic-medical, toxicological,
physical injures expertise, psychiatric, and DNA analyses.
5.
FINAL THOUGHTS
It is known that victims were neglected in criminal-police investigation, but the development of
victimology through numerous victimology researches enabled to understand the victim‟s role and
importance in the perpetrator disclosing and punishing through victimology profiling. For an inspector, the
victim is the source of information about the crime committed: active (victim‟s statement about crimes
committed or criminal charges and victim‟s testimony about crime and their perpetrator) and passive (traces
on victim leading to a perpetrator and interpersonal relationship between the attacker and the victim
indicating the motive and confirms perpetrators responsibility). Victims as an active source of information
about the committed criminal act require a special treatment by the police, social welfare centers,
governmental and nongovernmental organizations, in order to rapidly and efficiently satisfy the justice and
prevent from possible secondary victimization. The process of taking the statements depends on a victim too,
weather it is a woman, child, an old man or a helpless victim, because each of these types of victims require
different criminality approach or tactics in order to provide as much as possible information about the crime
committed. The problems that may obstruct the credibility of victimology profiling are over-generalization
and stereotypes, as well as lack of adequate data or insufficient interpretation abilities of the victimology
profiler. After all that is said about victimology profiling, the conclusion is that there should be more efforts
put in order for this important victimology method to become an integral part of solving crimes. For the
successful prosecution of perpetrators it is necessary to amend the criminal-procedural legislation and to
establish expert bodies or divisions for victimology profiling which should be composed of excellent
victimologists, criminologists, psychologists, court experts, criminalists, and experts from another field of
science. Victimology science research should be pointed towards previous experiences in victimology
profiling, victimization risk assumptions and fear of crime in order to ensure that this victimological methods
and techniques provide reliable and accurate information, on which the establishment of educational
standards of profiler would be based. In accordance to the technology development, there is a great need to
integrate modern computer technologies with victim profiling, which is why in the intention to create
adequate victim profile it is necessary to use the knowledge of an individual criminal forecasting which
would be directed towards the victim and not the perpetrator, and which should be consisted of the following
elements: diagnosis (determining the condition or circumstances under which the crime was committed),
classification (victim categorization and building database) and prediction (forecast).
Police structures should be reorganized in a way to have their own criminal profiling teams and
besides the criminalist, criminology and victimology profiler, they should also include psychologists, social
workers and experts from other science disciplines whose knowledge will enable more efficient work of
repressive agencies and fast and efficient justice for the victims. If it is not possible to employ new experts