CRJ2112 — Crime Scene Documentation
2 Credits Provides students with a thorough understanding of the written reports and other media required to document crime scenes, maintain a chain of custody for the evidence, and satisfy judicial admissibility requirements. This course presents the use of still photography, videography, emerging technologies and written reports used to document crime scenes. Lab fee (PLO 1, 2) Create and execute plans for processing mock crime scenes, by locating, processing, collecting, and packaging for submission items of evidence, documenting the scene, items, and activities with digital photography, logs, and diagrams, using the skills and concepts developed in CRJ 2114- Criminalistics. (PLO 1, 6, 7) Identify, collect, preserve, package, annotate and submit serological evidence from mock crime scenes. (PLO 1, 6, 7) Create note sheets while processing mock crime scenes that support subsequent logs, diagrams, and reports submitted for the scene. (PLO 1, 6, 7) Create investigative supplemental narrative reports documenting the processing of mock crime scenes, including a photographer’s supplement, a documentation specialist’s supplement, and a collector’s supplement, using first person, active voice, chronological narratives. (PLO 1, 6) Create and execute plans for locating, identifying, processing, collecting, packaging, annotating, and submitting drug evidence from mock crime scenes. (PLO 1, 4, 6, 7) Evaluate global differences in the way crime scenes are processed, to determine areas
Prerequisites: CRJ2114