CRIM 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unit, Homicide, Offender Profiling

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 330
• Professor: Carol Fleischhacker

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Start on patrol then can move on to whatever specific area they want. Apply scientific techniques to collect and analyze evidence that will be admissible in court. Ex: chemical processes that they use, a piece of evidence (a coffee cup looks lik that, but after may look ragged. Had dna and able to go through family memebrs and exclude info. Any time somebody walks into or leaves a place either leaves something behind or take something with them without a doubt. Need the tools to find what was taken or left. Ex:gun found in a bus, they recover and bring it to forencic fire unit and test it and see the cartridge. Any time theres a murder, they try to find videos and investigate. Go to ottowa for couple months and go fo a week course. Helps us finger out what happened by the location of bloodstain.