Digital Forensics: An overview of its concept and its importance in the Criminal Justice System.

Abstract

The main objectives of this research are to shed light on the emerging science-based digital forensics in the context of criminal investigations by collecting and studying digital evidence, transmitting, storing, analyzing, interpreting, and reconstructing to ensure legal admissibility before the courts. The research has concluded many results and perhaps the most important of them is that digital forensics has become a well-established science in criminal investigations with its tools, techniques, standard processes, and hypothetical knowledge that enabled it to manage digital evidence at crime scenes and bring it to the corridors of courts. However, there are challenges facing the way to do this, and perhaps the most important of which is the knowledge gap that may be imposed by the rapid development of digital technology techniques.

Keywords

• digital forensics
• digital evidence
• computer
• criminal investigations
• digital technology