CRIMINALISTICS

Catalog description

This course provides students an overview of criminalistics beginning with first- responder duties and ending with laboratory analysis and results. The focus will be on the application of the scientific method in the solving of crimes with particular emphasis on recording and processing the crime scene, fingerprints, trace evidence retrieval, blood and biological evidence, impression evidence including tire/shoe impressions, ballistics/firearms analysis, arson and explosives, sexual assaults, and burglary/robbery/motor vehicle and homicide investigations. Student will be required to complete and submit a crime scene investigation portfolio. (A special fee will be assessed.)