Managing Policing Demand for Digital Forensics through Risk Assessment and Prioritization in England and Wales
dc.contributor.author | Wilson-Kovacs, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilcox, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-03T11:04:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-12-16 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-12-27T14:37:38Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Digital forensic helps to unlock the evidential opportunities presented by digital devices. Ninety per cent of all cases in England and Wales carry a digital element and identifying the devices with the most evidential value is central to dealing effectively and efficiently with the demand for digital forensic (DF) analysis. This article offers an ethnographically informed, empirical analysis of how police requests for in-house DF examinations are organized in 35 forces in England and Wales, and the mechanisms, contexts, and challenges of managing-related internal demand, which have been rarely examined systematically in both policing and DF practitioner literature. The analysis illustrates how an updated understanding of risk and prioritization is needed to address the growing demand for DF analysis. The findings call for updated, systematic approaches that encourage the forecasting of internal policing demand collaboratively and bridge between the operational and the technical sides of investigations. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 16 December 2022 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac106 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/R00742X/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/132114 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0001-5861-3617 (Wilson-Kovacs, Dana) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.title | Managing Policing Demand for Digital Forensics through Risk Assessment and Prioritization in England and Wales | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-03T11:04:24Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1752-4512 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1752-4520 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-12-16 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-01-03T11:02:54Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-01-03T11:04:27Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-12-16 |
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