A Scientific Approach to Crime Scene Investigation

Catalog description

Principles of crime scene investigation with emphasis on scientific philosophy, concepts, and procedures. In this course, students will learn many of the essential principles and techniques of crime scene investigation. The necessity of a rigorous scientific approach will be stressed. This course uses an intensive, problem-solving style to teach scene management and the recognition, evaluation, enhancement, documentation, control, and collection of physical evidence. Students will be introduced to scene management principles; search techniques; techniques to recognize, enhance, document, and collect various types of physical evidence; communication of procedures and results; scene reconstruction and its role in a scientific investigation. The primary aim of the course is to immerse students in the scientific philosophy, integrity, scene investigation procedures, criminalistics, and role of the criminalist as they relate to scene investigation.