CRIM 355 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Homicide, Dna Profiling, Canada
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20 Nov 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
CRIM 355
CRIM 355 – Week 1
Physical Evidence
• Trace evidence
• More powerful than witness testimony
Time of Death – super important factore for alibi, homicide
• Medical parameters
• Others
Identification – from bones → can define cause of death
• Sex
• Age
• Race
• Height
• Tentative & positive ID
Coroner – called in anytime whenever dead body appear/ help police do their work/ AB has
medical system, BC has coroner system
• Investigate death
• Ombudsperson for dead
Crime Scene Analysis
• Crime scene specialists
• How to collect evidence
• How to analyze scene
Forensic Biology
• Hair
• Blood
• Semen etc.
• DNA
Forensic Chemistry
• Trace evidence – non biological ex. Duck tape, glass
• Chemistry of everyday
• Glass, paint etc.
• Bombing
• Arson
• Terrorism
Firearms & Tool marks
• Matching tool to mark
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• Matching ammunition to gun
• Gunshot residue
Questioned Documents
• Who wrote this? – handwriting analysis = not in this field
• Forgeries
Forensic Toxicology
• Drug & alcohol levels
• Poisons
• Drug labs
TEAM WORK
Midterm -Week 7
30% / 1.5 hour – all lectures, tutorials and readings
Final -
40%/ 3 hours – cumulative
Paper – Week 10 hand in to the general office CRIM or TA
30%
10 pgs, double space, 12 font
Critique of a forensic science
- Discuss the science
- The NAS report 2009 – on Canvas (check)
- Describe problem and accuracies in relation to the forensic science
- 10% penalty/day for late papers
Reference
• Journals
o Journal of forensic science
o Forensic science international
o Canadian soc. Forensic Sci.J.
Tutorial component
• Discussions, hands on look at science
• Anderson – crim 355 the forensic sciences 2017
Saferstein – criminalistics 11th edition 2015 → no other edition
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