The evidence collected at crime scenes may come in many forms, but the purpose is the same to help the innocent and lay the foundation for a conviction of the guilty.  Consider how this week’s material may be relevant to your Week Six Final Paper.  Prior to beginning this assignment, review the required resources:

Read:
An Introduction to Crime Scene Investigation

• Chapter 1: An Introduction to Crime Scene Investigation
• Chapter 4: Duties of the First Responders to the Crime Scene
• Chapter 5: Specialized Personnel and Safety Considerations

Watch:

• Discovery of Crime Scene (Links to an external site.)
• Crime Scene: Evidence Collection (Links to an external site.)
• JD Buck Savage at the Crime Scene (Links to an external site.)

Also, use the information in this crime scene scenario to prepare for the assignment:

• The Scenario: Criminal Justice

Your Evidence and Crime Scene paper must address the following elements:

• Describe the steps that must be taken to secure and process a crime scene.
• Explain the various personnel at a crime scene, and explain what each of them does.
• Discuss whether you believe it is a good idea to have personnel who have different skills and training at the crime scene and the laboratory or whether there should be fewer people with multiple specialties.
• Articulate what aspects of this week’s material you can use to complete your analysis of the crime scene in your final assignment.

The Evidence and Crime Scenes paper

• Must be approximately 1,000 words (approximately four double-spaced pages in length not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

You are the Commander of a crime scene investigative (CSI) unit. The unit is only a couple of months old, and the members of the unit are all new and in need of training from the ground up. The Chief of Police requires you to use your experience to establish a training program for the new members of the CSI unit. The Chief requires a proposal from you on what training you will be providing the unit team.

The proposal will be in an APA format. No abstract will be required because it is only a short proposal on the first training week—but a title page, reference page, and appropriate running header with page numbers are all necessary.

• What is the difference between real or physical evidence and testimonial evidence?
• Provide 5 examples of real or physical evidence that might require explanation in court by you because you are the one recording, recovering, processing, and packaging the evidence you recovered.
• Why is real or physical evidence important for the triers of fact (jury)?
• What is demonstrative evidence, and why is it used to clarify issues in trials?
• What is the difference between direct evidence and circumstantial evidence? Explain.
  • What is the concept of overwhelming circumstantial evidence? Explain.
    • Can it be enough for a conviction? Why or why not?

1.

Identifying key stakeholders that can affect or will be affected as a result of your evidence-based project recommendations. Please refer to linked Appendix C: (My Evidence Base Project will be about Indwelling urinary catheter during hospitalization that causes infection/Foley catheters significantly raise the risk of infection specifically catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs)

https://ichs.ethinksites.com/pluginfile.php/43386/mod_forum/intro/2017_Appendix%20C_Stakeholder%20Analysis.docx

2.

After identifying and completing the stakeholder worksheet, find a database such as Google Scholar or the database of your choice to conduct a preliminary search of evidence-based articles related to your topic. Choose one relevant article and identify the level and quality by using linked Appendix D:

 

https://ichs.ethinksites.com/pluginfile.php/43386/mod_forum/intro/2017_Appendix_D_Evidence%20Level%20and%20Quality%20Guide.docx

Impression Evidence: Shoes, Tires, Tools

Impression evidence covers a variety of different types of evidence, but each can provide evidentiary value. Consider how this week’s material may be relevant to your Week Six Final Paper.  Prior to beginning this assignment, please review the required resources:

Read:

• An Introduction to Crime Scene Investigation (3rd Ed.)
  • Chapter 9: Trace Evidence
  • Chapter 12: Impression Evidence

Review:

• Overview of Impression and Pattern Evidence
• Trace Evidence

Watch:

• Trace evidence 2011: Soil.  NFSTC at FIU
• 23 Tool marks
• Tire tread and tire track evidence
• Leave no trace – footprint evidence

Your Impression evidence: Shoes, tires, and tools paper must focus on the collection and analysis of impression evidence from a crime scene, and it must include the following:

• Describe the history of impression evidence.
• Explain the common types and characteristics of impression evidence.
• Explain how impression evidence is collected and analyzed.
• Articulate what aspects of this week’s material you can use to complete your analysis of the crime scene in your final assignment.