Criminal Justice Presentation: Technology and Critical Thinking Skills

This presentation examines the significant role of computer technology in criminal justice, focusing on how it enhances critical thinking skills within agencies like the FBI. The presentation details the use of computer forensics in investigations, including the reconstruction of criminal minds through data analysis and the retrieval of crucial information via keyword queries and digital summaries. It explores various applications, such as the use of AI for evidence screening and verification, highlighting both the advantages, like data analysis and information recovery, and disadvantages of technology in this field. The presentation also provides recommendations for improving the use of technology in criminal justice, such as establishing cross-border data forensics and widening the scope of computer forensic applications. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of computer applications in storing, analyzing valuable information, and facilitating critical and creative thinking within the legal field.

HOW COMPUTER FACILITATES
CRITICAL THINKING IN
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
PRESENTED BY

INTRODUCTION
• Computer technologies is crucial element of criminal justice
• FBI uses computer forensics in investigations of crimes
• Computer technologies has made it easier for FBI to carry out
investigation.
• Presentation explores how computer technology facilitates critical
thinking
• Lastly, it gives recommendations for computer technologies

COMPUTERS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
• The use of the computer in the legal field is becoming a rule rather
than an exception.
• Lawyers have unimaginable amounts of information at their disposal
(Hand, 2017).
• This information must be processed to give meaning.
• Processing requires critical thinking skills.
• The computer becomes a safe and fast ally for all these tasks.

HOW COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY HAS
ENHANCED CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
• Computer forensics helps FBI to reconstruct criminal mind
• Criminal mind is reconstructed through correlational analysis
• Most criminals carry their acts after extensive internet search
• With computer forensic, it is easy to explore the search history
• Search history helps in acquisition of circumstantial evidence

HOW COMPUTERS ENHANCE CRITICAL
THINKING SKILLS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
• It offers wider search possibilities
• It facilitates retrieval of hidden file
• It encourage the investigators to widen the scope of their thinking
• It saves time hence enabling investigators think more critically

EXAMPLE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
APPLICATION

HOW COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY HAS
ENHANCED CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
• Computers facilitate information recovery
• Investigators can use keyword queries to retrieve crucial information
• Computer facilitates analysis of file attributes and digital summaries
• Computer facilitate search system logs
• Computer makes it easier to retrieve other clues related to crime.

HOW COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY HAS
ENHANCED CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
• Computer enables correlation of variables in data analysis
• Computer allow investigation agencies use the minute evidences
• Data decryption making it easier for investigation agencies to explore
more options
• Computer facilitate evidence verification

HOW COMPUTER FACILITATES CRITICAL
THINKING
• Computer facilitates evidence judgment.
• Computer products such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) can conduct
formal screening and check
• AI can facilitate discovery of obvious contradictions or changes in
morphological evidence
• Computer applications such as AI can ensure that judicial personnel
collect and review evidence as comprehensively as possible.

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF
TECHNOLOGY IN CREATIVE THINKING
Advantages
• Computers applications facilitate analyzing data
• Helps in recovery of hidden and deleted data
• Facilitate visualization of information
• Facilitate retrieval of important information
Disadvantages
• The only disadvantage is that computer forensic is not applicable to all
crimes

RECOMMENDATIONS
• FBI should establish cross-border data forensic
• FBI should widen the scope of computer forensic
• FBI should innovate and come up with new computer forensic
technologies
• Legislative adjustment on computer forensics should be done

CONCLUSION
• Computer applications are essential in criminal justice
• Computer applications help in storage and analysis of valuable
information
• Computer tools and applications facilitates manipulation of data
• Computer tools reduces human effort and fosters critical and creative
thinking