Forensic mapping in South Africa

Forensic mapping has been used successfully in South Africa to bring criminals to book. This article discusses four examples of forensic mapping applications used in courts as evidence ranging from murder, kidnapping to stock theft. These four cases necessitated various approaches to display the information in court. A single map was used in the first case example. In the second murder case example, a storyboard approach was used to portray the events surrounding the murder. Several maps in a presentation format were used to illustrate the suspects' involvement in stock theft. The last example consisted of a report that included several maps to indicate the suspects' involvement in the crime. The conclusion is that the mapping approach must be appropriate for a specific court case to convey the evidence as clear possible to the court. Further they would like to thank the independent reviewers for their valuable inputs and Tsepang Leuta for proofreading of the article. Lastly, they would like to thank the ICC 2013 conference organizing committee for the opportunity to present this paper. Notes 1. Source: Dictionary.com [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/storyboard http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/storyboard] accessed October 22, 2012

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