FRNSC 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pyrolysis, Sunlight, Asphyxia
Document Summary
Questioned documents: types of cases involving question documents, lots of cases, commonly encountered documents. Information potential: comparisons, handwriting, determine if someone wrote something, typewriter, copiers, printers, and facsimile machines, alterations, erasures, and obliterations, physical fit of torn paper. Sexual assaults: performed primarily by medical personnel, sexual assault nurse examiner (sane, types of cases, perpetrator(s) unknow to victim, can be easier, perpetrator(s) known to victim, dna doesn"t mean as much. Rape kit: sexual assault evidence collection kit, sexual assault forensic evidence (safe) kit, sexual offense evidence collection (soec) kit, physical evidence recovery kit (perk) kit, may be asked to come document but usually are not involved. Injury documentation: victim injuries, blunt force injuries, bruises, lacerations, sharp force and puncture injuries, asphyxia, neck compression, tears and abrasions, mouth, vagina, anus, or perineum, bitemarks, burns, documentation, notes and sketches, visualization. Intense white light: wood"s lamp (long wavelength uv, hitwls, photographic.
