criminal investigation

process that attempts to determine the facts of a crime and circumstances

Class type of: activity, law enforcement project, legal act Q1964968

Facts

5 properties

Instance of: applied science
Subclass of: activity, law enforcement project, legal act, inquiry
Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[9]
Has effect: criminal prosecution, exoneration^[10]^[11]
Said to be the same as: bringer of preliminary proceedings, criminal investigation, police investigation^[6]^[7]^[8]

🏷️ Also known as

en criminal investigation en investigation ar تحقيق جنائي da efterforskning de Ermittlung es investigacion criminal es investigación criminal fi rikostutkimus he חקירה פלילית hi अपराध अन्वेषण hu nyomozás id penyidikan kejahatan it indagine it investigazione ja 捜査 ja 犯罪捜査 ko 범죄 수사 nl misdaadonderzoek nl strafrechtelijk onderzoek pl śledztwo kryminalne

🔖 Identifiers · 25

Library of Congress Authorities ID: sh85034045
OpenAlex ID: C117660856
Arab Encyclopedia concept ID: 8065
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID: scot/11517
BBC Things ID: 015569ba-84cb-4fa2-a0d0-4cfe5e30b904
BVPB authority ID: 97508
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID: criminal-investigation
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/criminal-investigation, topic/criminal-investigation
Freebase ID: /m/0kvbzmz
Harper's tag: criminal-investigation
IPTC NewsCode: mediatopic/20000131
Iconclass notation: 44G23

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JSTOR topic ID (archived): criminal-investigation
KBpedia ID: CriminalInvestigation
Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry: criminal-investigation
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 117660856
NDL Authority ID: 00562966
National Library of Latvia ID: 000050338
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID: XX524974
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID: tgm002743
Topic's main category: Category:Criminal investigation
U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10638604
UK Parliament thesaurus ID: 90778
Wellcome Collection concept ID: uc8wd74q
Yale LUX ID: activity/56d5d81b-90b1-4863-8636-b030491b1f1b

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🔗 Connections

← Main subject 19

The Usual Suspects, Minority Report, Sleepy Hollow, Zodiac, detective fiction, Déjà Vu, 8 Women, 12 +11 more

← Significant event 5

Louvre Museum, Ken Paxton, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Jean-Luc Martinez, Coffin of Nedjemankh

Examples 4

International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine, 2017-2019 Special Counsel investigation, murder of the Notorious B.I.G., blocking of X in Brazil

Subclass of 3

activity, inquiry, legal act

← Field of work 3

Beate Klarsfeld, Investigations Police of Chile, State Prosecutor's Office of Kosovo

Has effect 2

criminal prosecution, exoneration

Has these parts 2

police line-up, bringer of preliminary proceedings

Said to be the same as 2

criminal investigation, bringer of preliminary proceedings

← Has use 2

search, London District Cage

← Said to be the same as 2

criminal investigation, bringer of preliminary proceedings

Described by source 1

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Instance of 1

applied science

Topic's main category 1

Category:Criminal investigation

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Criminal investigation

← Field of this occupation 1

detective

← Has cause 1

dismissal of FBI Director James Comey

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Summary

criminal investigation is an applied science^[1]. It is a type of activity^[2], law enforcement project^[3], legal act^[4], and inquiry^[5].

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Class ancestry

[1] ↑ criminal investigation is an instance of applied science (Q28797) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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2d ago · Magnus Manske · 2026-11-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

BVPB authority ID → 97508

"Created claim: BVPB authority ID: 97508, batch #294593"
4w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → criminal-investigation

"Created claim: Harper's tag: criminal-investigation, Matched to criminal investigation (#289923891) in…"
7w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗

National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID → XX524974

"Created claim: National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID: XX524974"
11w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID → topic/criminal-investigation

"Created claim: Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/criminal-investigation"
19w ago · Humoyun Qodirov · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Said to be the same as → bringer of preliminary proceedings, criminal investigation, police investigation

Instance of → applied science

Has effect → criminal prosecution, exoneration

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