This course provides an analytical framework to evaluate evidence
students will have the opportunity to manipulate strategies that could be employed within the investigative arena while also addressing and critically assessing elements that are pertinent to appropriate measures of evidence collection. The contextual strategies associated to criminal investigations and the modality that was implemented by scholars in the past will be appraised and contrasted to measures that are utilized within the industry today to provide a comparative assessment of strategy.
Students will have the opportunity to collaborate together on addressing the serviceable element associated to the mission of evidence collection in the investigative realm of criminal justice. There will be activities, assessments, and tasks that will address the appropriate modalities to incorporate in the evidence collection, preservation, and analysis process.
The course assumes basic knowledge of the issues associated to ethical issues and integrity of preserving evidence with the opportunity for students to advance their knowledge on an analytical level by contextually assessing the dynamics within the investigative field. Students will have the knowledge to evaluate the challenges that permeate crime scene investigators while being exposed to the mission associated representing justice and equality to reveal the evidence at the scene within the court of law.
This course will address the importance associated to the collection and preservation of evidence; in addition, the Biblical principles of wisdom and truth will be embraced as strategies for making appropriate and necessary strides to ensure that duty comes before the desires of the flesh.
This course will provide students with the opportunity to investigate the purpose of order and strategy within evidence collection processes that occur at crime scenes. The focus centers upon determining the most appropriate technique to be utilized to ensure that the correct measure of identification, collection, and preservation of evidence is being applied in correlation to the type of evidence being collected. The mission encompasses the face of honesty; evidence collection should take place within an empire of honesty and truth to ensure that justice can be served against those that have been victimized.
Crime dates back to Biblical times; justice is served based upon the facts associated the crime reported. The circumstance surrounding the crime is something that can at times be compared to previous events of criminality; however, the caveat of innovation should not be overlooked. There are elements that should not be dismissed simply because it has not or is not typically seen within an investigation. The ideology of the CSI Effect is explored within this course for the purpose of addressing fabrications associated to the realities of investigations and to ensure that no pattern or piece of evidence goes ignored.
The culture associated to justice is political in nature; therefore, to ensure that a lens of favoritism is not utilized within the collection of evidence, procedures and policies are provided and suggested to reduce the opportunity to operate within an unethical manner.
The investigative arena embraces an element of analysis and crime scene investigations even more so implements this level of analytical exploration for the purpose of inspecting the validity of actions by others. This course will provide students with the opportunity to research and examine each type of evidence collection that corroborates directly with the type of evidence left at a scene. The operations utilized to investigate, collect, and preserve various types of evidence transpires a societal response based upon the notion that the collection was done correctly; therefore, the amount of pressure associated to these vocational opportunities can be stressful at times.
