The research project of 「Comprehensive Policy for Developing Scientific Criminal Investigation and Forensic Science」(2018~2023) led by Korean Institute of Criminology & Justice aims to build a national policy framework for scientific criminal investigation and forensic science for the criminal justice reform in this era of the 4th Industrial Revolution. 

Forensic science involves forensic theory and practive in criminal justice system, by applying scientific methods and processes to solving criminal matters. So this research consists of the studies on the institutions and practices of digital forensic, bio forensic and forensic psychology, in the context of national scientific criminal investigation law and policy. This research project is done by co-research teams from Korean Association of Digital Forensic Studies, Korean Association of Forensic Psychology, and Korean National Police University. 

As the project is to be proceed under the four main policy values of scientific investigation and forensic, such as human rights protection, effectiveness in investigation, national security & human safety, and criminal justice reform, this fifth year research of the 6 years-term project focuses on how scientific investigation and forensic science to contribute to the promotion of criminal justice reform in the era of post-COVID19.

The value of 'reform', esp. criminal justice reform for this year's research can be found in the fact that one of the main task of criminal justice reform is to protect human rights, to protect national security and to promote the effectiveness of crime investigation. Law and policies on scientific criminal investigation and forensic is to be contribute to the values of the reform, and such recent reform legislation and institutional reform (the change of criminal investigation system & structure) has some impact on the instititions of sceintific crime investigation at the Police and Prosecutors’ Service. What is more significant backgroud to the reform will be the pandemic of the COVID19, which have had great impact on the whole Korean society as well as the global society. The era of post-COVID19 can be defined as its charateristics of the distancing, remoteness, and digitalization, which again sholud be considerd as the key elements of the criminal justice reform. 

So this study has designed an expert survey on the topic of the task of scientific criminal investigation policy for criminal justice reform in the era of the post-COVID 19 to analyse the changes and demand of digital forensic, bio forensic and forensic psychology. 

The study of 2022 mainly consists of five parts with specific analysis of each research topics as follows:

Part I : Review of the main tasks of scientific crime investigation under the recent reform of criminal investigation system & the changes of the post-COVID19 era

 Chapter 1 : The development tasks of scientific crime investigative institutions and its fuctions 

 Chapter 2 : The development tasks of scientific crime investigative policies 

 Chapter 3 : The prospect of criminal justice reform on the development & improvement of scientific crime investigative policies & institutions. 

Part II : Criminal justice reform by AI-applied digital forensic 

 Chapter 1 : Introduction

 Chapter 2 : Digital forensic and criminal laws in the era of post-COVID19 

 Chapter 3 : AI criminal laws in the system of AI laws 

 Chapter 4 : Application of AI technology for digital forensic and criminal laws in the era of post-COVID19 

 Chapter 5 : Review of the legal cases on AI technology for digital forensic and criminal laws 

 Chapter 6 : Policy proposals for the application of AI technology in the filed of digital forensic 

 Chapter 7 : Conclusion

 Part III : The policy demands and tasks of bi-forensic in the post-COVID19 era 

 Chapter 1 : Introduction 

 Chapter 2 : The issues and tasks of bio-forensic by the changes under the era of post-COVID19 

 Chapter 3 : International trends in the standardization of bio-forensics

 Chapter 4 : Consdieration of introducing ISO/TC272 

 Chapter 5 : Conclusion 

Part IV : Criminal justice reform through the development of forensic psychology assesment 

 Chapter 1 : Trends in the application of forensic psychology assessment 

 Chapter 2 : Psychoanalysis and recidivism risk assessment system in the U.S. 

 Chapter 3 : Overview of psychoanalysis system and major psychological forensic uation tools 

 Chapter 4 : Overview of recidivism risk assessment system and major psychological forensic assessment tools 

 Chapter 5 : Policy tasks for promoting the utilization of forensic psychology assessment system 

Part V : The development of national scientific criminal investigation policy for criminal justice reform in the era of post-COVID19 

Chapter 1 : Review of issues and analysis for criminal justice reform in the era of post-COVID19 

Chapter 2 : Policy proposals for the development of scientific criminal investigation and the tasks for the 2023 research