Crime Scene Investigation

Catalog description

Offered: DD. This course provides the student with a series of lectures, labs and exercise practicums for documenting crime scenes, identifying evidence and collecting various types of evidence as well as the preliminary techniques for crime scene processing. Students will process mock crime scenes to access what is evidence, how to collect, preserve and examine various types of evidence. This course will include an introduction to basic crime scene searching and sketching, photography, fingerprint development and recovery, footwear lifting and casting, blood collection, firearms recovery safety, trace metal detection techniques.