Criminalistics

Catalog description

This course presents a survey of the different methods of scientific investigative techniques including fingerprinting, photography, casting, ballistic procedures, evidence collection, chain of custody, and utilization of crime laboratories. In addition students will participate in a crime scene search and discover the interdependent nature of the investigator and lab technician. Students will be given the opportunity to use the compound and stereo microscopes in examination of hairs, fibers, paint, drugs, glass, soil, and tool marks. Forensic serology and toxicology concepts are also presented as they relate to the field investigator. Offered every spring (day) and every fall (BCJ online).