This 6 years-term research project of [Comprehensive Policy for Developing Scientific Criminal Investigation and Forensic Science] aims to provide Korean national policy framework for scientific criminal investigation and forensic science. Forensic science involves applying scientific principles to legal investigations. Forensic science covers a variety of investigative areas. The project is expected to support criminal investigations towards more fairness and effectiveness in criminal justice system, which secures public confidence.
Mainly, the research focus on the digital forensic, bio forensic and forensic psychology, in the context of national scientific criminal investigation law and practice. For the convergence study, this research project is based on the cooperative system joined by Korean Association of Digital Forensic, Korean Association of Forensic Psychology, Korean Association of Criminal Procedure Law, Association of criminal case law studies, and Korean National Police Academy.
Moreover, the research project is to be proceed under the four main polic values of scientific investigation and forensic, such as human rights protection, national security, effectiveness in investigation, and criminal justice reform, which will be researched by each year until 2023 as originally planned.
This second year of the research in 2019, based on the sketches of the general situation of national scientific criminal investigation and reviews of the current agenda of forensic sciences, focus on how to promote human rights by systematization and reform of forensic sciences and criminal investigation techniques as well. The study consists of seven parts with specific analysis of each research topics as follows:

Part I : Agenda of the national scientific criminal investigation policies
Chapter 1 : Analysis of the legal issues in national scientific criminal investigation policy
Chapter 2 : Current issues in the scientific criminal investigation of the Police
Chapter 3 : Current issues in the scientific criminal investigation of the Prosecution Services
Chapter 4 : Current issues in the forensic research
Chapter 5 : Human rights protection and promotion as the policy value of the national scientific criminal investigation

Part II : Comparative review and legal tasks of the scientific criminal investigation policy
Chapter 1 : Analysis of the development in scientific criminal investigation policy in Germany, Japan and the US.
Chapter 2 : International Standards on scientific criminal investigation law and policy
Chapter 3 : Prospect of scientific criminal investigation policy and its tasks

Part III : Review and legal tasks of the criminal case laws on scientific criminal investigation
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Review of case laws on scientific criminal investigation
Chapter 3 : Review of case laws on scientific criminal investigation in Germany, Japan and the US.
Chapter 4 : Legal reform of scientific criminal investigation process and legislation on the protection of communication privacy
Chapter 5 : Prospect of scientific criminal investigation policy

Part IV : Issues and reform tasks of digital forensic and scientific criminal investigation
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : High-technology and current issues in digital forensic
Chapter 3 : Human rights protection in digital forensic techniques
Chapter 4 : National strategy in the development of digital forensic
Chapter 5 : Conclusion

Part V : Issues and reform tasks of bio forensic and scientific criminal investigation
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Human rights violations and bio forensic evidence
Chapter 3 : Review of bio forensic evidence cases in criminal trials
Chapter 4 : Reform of expert examination procedure for the portection of human rights
Chapter 5 : Conclusion

Part VI : Issues and reform tasks of forensic psychology and scientific criminal investigation
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Trends in the forensic psychology of polygraph techniques
Chapter 3 : Issues and tasks of polygraph techniques
Chapter 4 : Statement Validity Assessment and Behaviour Analysis
Chapter 5 : The validity of polygraph techniques in criminal cases
Chapter 6 : Prospect of the development in polygraph techniques

Part VII : General conclusion - Visions of the national policy of scientific criminal investigation and forensic techniques
Chapter 1 : Review of national scientific criminal investigation policy and forensic issues
Chapter 2 : Prospects of scientific criminal investigation policies and its tasks