CJ 3405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Corpus Delicti, Birds Eye View, Trace Evidence

• School: App State
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 3405
• Professor: Kenneth Mullen

Document Summary

In any investigative process, the beginning is generally more important than any other stage. Discovery and detail stage: when the greatest excitement and newness of information occurs. Destroy and distort stage: the likelihood of disrupting reality by the intrusions of the investigator are now a problem. Chaos and control stage: when info discovered and distorted also most likely will lack meaning. Preliminary investigation: the series of activities going on at the crime scene. The preliminary investigation is important for numerous reasons: solvability: many cases simply solve themselves, but some are more puzzling. Response time: quick arrival of police, after being notified, to the crime scene: evidence: 4 types of evidence will confront the preliminary investigator: Corpus delicti: evidence that a crime has been committed. Associative evidence: information that links a person not on the scene to having been on that scene earlier. Trace evidence: minute or small pieces of evidence.