Five Biases In Criminal Investigation
The five mistakes not to make while investigating an accident that I chose are 1. Allowing your biases to affect the outcome of the investigation, letting your biases cloud your judgment will throw off your investigation as soon as you allow that to happen. If an accident occurs and multiple people are involved with one being someone you get along with and the other is someone that you particularly do not like and you allow that dislike to enter into the investigation how can you be objective in finding the cause and preventing it from happening again. 2. Not investigating in a timely manner, the longer you wait to investigate the more likely it is that the truth will be harder to find. It is human nature to forget things or to relive
something in your head differently than what actually happened so interviewing witnesses as soon as possible is key to getting to the truth. 3. Failing to learn investigation techniques, investigating an accident using only what you have seen on television or what you think is the right way to do it is a recipe for a bad investigation. Without formal training you will easily miss details and subtle signs that a trained investigator would easily catch. 4. Failing to conduct an in-depth investigation,rushing through an investigation is an easy way to miss key details and not come up with a reason for the accident. If an accident occurs and management is trying to hurry everything along so work can get back to normal production you must push back and explain that rushing the investigation could lead to missing details for stopping the next accident to happen and it is best to conduct a thorough investigation. 5. Failing to investigate near misses, near misses may not seem important to investigate, but they are extremely important. Investigating a near miss should be treated just like an actual investigation, the next time it could not be a near miss at all and someone could be seriously injured(Goetshc,2015).
something in your head differently than what actually happened so interviewing witnesses as soon as possible is key to getting to the truth. 3. Failing to learn investigation techniques, investigating an accident using only what you have seen on television or what you think is the right way to do it is a recipe for a bad investigation. Without formal training you will easily miss details and subtle signs that a trained investigator would easily catch. 4. Failing to conduct an in-depth investigation,rushing through an investigation is an easy way to miss key details and not come up with a reason for the accident. If an accident occurs and management is trying to hurry everything along so work can get back to normal production you must push back and explain that rushing the investigation could lead to missing details for stopping the next accident to happen and it is best to conduct a thorough investigation. 5. Failing to investigate near misses, near misses may not seem important to investigate, but they are extremely important. Investigating a near miss should be treated just like an actual investigation, the next time it could not be a near miss at all and someone could be seriously injured(Goetshc,2015).