Hans Gross created with the first print of his book “Handbuch für Untersuchungsrichter,
Polizeibeamte, Gendarmen, usw.“ a standard volume for the
work at crime scenes in 1893. This book was published in several editions over
a time period of decades.
Throughout the time the technology, which is used for crime scene documentation,
has changed, correlated to the then actual available technology.
This article gives an overview about the changes in the technologies used at
crimes scenes for documentation between 1893 and 2022. It describes the way
from sketching and modelling to photography, Infrared-photography, spherical
panoramic photography and laser scanning. Many modern technologies are
based upon scientific principles which were described decades ago, although
people think, that they are new.
This article also takes a look upon what principles for the work at crime
scenes, postulated by Hans Gross, are still valid today
