Understanding Crime Scene Investigations

Crime Scene Processing

What you'll learn
This course provides you with a general overview of crime scene techniques for a basic understanding of how to process crime scenes.
You will also learn the importance of evaluating and processing evidence to assist crime laboratory experts.
You will also learn the importance of photographing a crime scene.
You will also learn the importance of evidence collection.
Compare types of crime scene searches.
Requirements
You should have a digital camera, of smart phone device with a camera. You will need serchie standard black fingerprint power and a serchie statdard fingerprint processing brush.
Description
This course provides a general overview of crime scene investigations for a basic understanding of how to process crime scenes. You will also learn the importance of evaluating and processing evidence to assist crime laboratory experts. You will complete assignments that will lead to success. You will apply what you are studying within each of the four sections for this course and complete discussion assignments and PowerPoint assignments which will lead to the completion of the course. This course requires time and effort to learn the course material and improve your knowledge and skills. The purpose of crime scene investigation is to help establish what happened (crime scene reconstruction) and to identify the responsible person. This is done by carefully documenting the conditions at a crime scene and recognizing all relevant physical evidence. The actions of control, preserve, record, recover, and reconstruct, are the core principles of crime scene examination. An excellent Criminal Scene Investigator is someone who has a dedication to helping others through their detective work. They have excellent attention to detail, enabling them to identify significant evidence, establish inconsistencies in suspect statements, and discover connections between suspects and victims. The golden rule for crime scenes is “Do not touch, alter, move, or transfer any object at the crime scene unless it is properly marked, measured, sketched, and photographed.” This rule is to be followed every day, in every scene.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome Course Video

Lecture 2 Introduction

Section 2: Fingerprint Classification

Lecture 3 Vehicle processed for latent prints

Lecture 4 Shell casings processed for latent prints

Lecture 5 Processing evidence

Section 3: The crime scene investigator

Lecture 6 The Crime Scene Investigator

Section 4: Processing and searching the crime scene

Lecture 7 Photographing a vehicle

Lecture 8 Processing with Small Particle Reagent (SPR)

Lecture 9 Processing evidence retrieved from a crime scene.

Lecture 10 Processing with luminol

Lecture 11 Collecting Biological Evidence

Lecture 12 Course Ending Video

This course is a beginner level crime scene investigations course that will enhance learners knowledge, skill and abilities in crime scene investigations.