Crime Scene Investigation
The Bone Collector
The Crime Scene:
Part 1: Sketching the crime scene
Part 2: Photographing the crime scene
Part 3: Processing the crime scene
Bloodbourne Pathogens and Preventing Disease Transmission:
Crime Scene Investigators are consistently exposed to body fluids (such as blood) during their work. To protect themselves, they must know how to prevent the transmission of diseases that could be present in the crime scene they are investigating. Since you too will be investigating crime scenes this semester, you also need to know how to keep yourself safe. Watch each of the short videos and fill-in the "Preventing Disease Transmission" guided notes worksheet:
(Sometimes these videos get blocked since they contain blood. If you're having trouble accessing a video, try the others and then try a "work around" if you can.)
Video 1: Bloodbourne Pathogens: Knowledge is your first defense
Video 2: The chain of infection
Video 3: Removing contaminated gloves
Video 4: Proper handwashing technique
Video 5: Cleaning up blood and other potentially infectious materials
Video 6: Staying safe on the job
Browse this website to check out the different kinds of personal protective equipment (PPE) investigators regularly need to use to keep themselves safe while identifying, collecting, and working with evidence. Then, go look at this list of all the different equipment used by investigators while working at different crime scenes.
Issues in Crime Scene Investigation:
In a group of three or four students, divide the following articles among the group so that everyone reads a different article. (There might be an article or two that your group doesn't read if you have fewer than five people.) Individually, read your article and make notes of its important ideas. Then, write a 2-paragraph response to your article: 1 paragraph that summarizes the important ideas from the article (including a direct quote or two), 1 paragraph that explains how this article connects to what we've been learning recently about crime scene investigation. Choose from the five article below:
Article 1: What does the Supreme Court have to say about "expert" Forensic witnesses?
Article 2: What role should victims play in criminal investigations?
Article 3: NC's state crime lab was caught falsifying evidence AND How can suspects benefit from Forensics expertise? (2 shorter articles)
Article 4: What kind of evidence is left behind from digital and online crimes?
Article 5: Terrorism
The US Criminal Justice System
How does the evidence that investigators find at a crime scene contribute to the larger process of creating a criminal case against a suspect? What rights does the suspect have during this process, and whose responsibility is it to uphold those rights? How does our country's Criminal Justice System use forensic evidence and how does the evidence contribute to possible problems within this system?
How do we determine what rules to make that determine whether an act is a crime or not?
How does the US Criminal Justice System work?
Show what you've learned and what you think...
Based on our class discussions of problems and issues facing the US Criminal Justice System, as well as how this system works and the history and traditions upon which it is based, create a FlipGrid video that 1) outlines a specific issue or problem connected to Criminal Justice, 2) demonstrates that there is a problem using data, statistics, quotes, or support from other resources, 3) identifies at least two differing perspectives or viewpoints on the issue, and 4) proposes at least one possible solution or response to this issue with a brief explanation of why you think this solution would help solve the issue. Your video should be between 3 and 5 minutes, and should include each of the parts listed above. Record and post your video using the FlipGrid app or website. Our class code is jedwardschem.
The Bone Collector
The Crime Scene:
Part 1: Sketching the crime scene
Part 2: Photographing the crime scene
Part 3: Processing the crime scene
Bloodbourne Pathogens and Preventing Disease Transmission:
Crime Scene Investigators are consistently exposed to body fluids (such as blood) during their work. To protect themselves, they must know how to prevent the transmission of diseases that could be present in the crime scene they are investigating. Since you too will be investigating crime scenes this semester, you also need to know how to keep yourself safe. Watch each of the short videos and fill-in the "Preventing Disease Transmission" guided notes worksheet:
(Sometimes these videos get blocked since they contain blood. If you're having trouble accessing a video, try the others and then try a "work around" if you can.)
Video 1: Bloodbourne Pathogens: Knowledge is your first defense
Video 2: The chain of infection
Video 3: Removing contaminated gloves
Video 4: Proper handwashing technique
Video 5: Cleaning up blood and other potentially infectious materials
Video 6: Staying safe on the job
Browse this website to check out the different kinds of personal protective equipment (PPE) investigators regularly need to use to keep themselves safe while identifying, collecting, and working with evidence. Then, go look at this list of all the different equipment used by investigators while working at different crime scenes.
Issues in Crime Scene Investigation:
In a group of three or four students, divide the following articles among the group so that everyone reads a different article. (There might be an article or two that your group doesn't read if you have fewer than five people.) Individually, read your article and make notes of its important ideas. Then, write a 2-paragraph response to your article: 1 paragraph that summarizes the important ideas from the article (including a direct quote or two), 1 paragraph that explains how this article connects to what we've been learning recently about crime scene investigation. Choose from the five article below:
Article 1: What does the Supreme Court have to say about "expert" Forensic witnesses?
Article 2: What role should victims play in criminal investigations?
Article 3: NC's state crime lab was caught falsifying evidence AND How can suspects benefit from Forensics expertise? (2 shorter articles)
Article 4: What kind of evidence is left behind from digital and online crimes?
Article 5: Terrorism
The US Criminal Justice System
How does the evidence that investigators find at a crime scene contribute to the larger process of creating a criminal case against a suspect? What rights does the suspect have during this process, and whose responsibility is it to uphold those rights? How does our country's Criminal Justice System use forensic evidence and how does the evidence contribute to possible problems within this system?
How do we determine what rules to make that determine whether an act is a crime or not?
How does the US Criminal Justice System work?
Show what you've learned and what you think...
Based on our class discussions of problems and issues facing the US Criminal Justice System, as well as how this system works and the history and traditions upon which it is based, create a FlipGrid video that 1) outlines a specific issue or problem connected to Criminal Justice, 2) demonstrates that there is a problem using data, statistics, quotes, or support from other resources, 3) identifies at least two differing perspectives or viewpoints on the issue, and 4) proposes at least one possible solution or response to this issue with a brief explanation of why you think this solution would help solve the issue. Your video should be between 3 and 5 minutes, and should include each of the parts listed above. Record and post your video using the FlipGrid app or website. Our class code is jedwardschem.