The Legal Challenges to Crime Scene Searches The examination of the crime scene is the most vital phase conducted at the scene of a crime. Investigation of crime scene is more than just showing up, taking a few photos, and calling it a day; there is more to it that. There are some legal challenges to crime scene investigation that unfortunately as vital as this portion is can get screwed up sometimes, sometimes even intentionally. Throughout an investigation mistakes, ethics, and biases play
Google defined Crime Scene Investigators as, a specially-trained police officer who is dispatched to a crime scene to analyze and document evidence. (1) In my perspective, he/she is a person who has an important job of securing and exploring the details and leftovers of a crime performance. CSI jobs are not as easy and over dramatic as in movies, they involve arranging and searching of specific details through minutes and hours so that prosecutors can figure out a convincing case and find the criminal
Question 4: Discuss the ways in which a person may alter a crime scene in order to obstruct officers from conducting an investigation? Answer: There are various different reasons as to why a person would decide to alter a crime scene (Gardner & Anderson, 2016). One option is “Staging the Crime Scene to Cause Confusion,” which is when a suspect will make the crime scene look a certain way to sway investigators into opposite direction (Gardner & Anderson, 2016, p. 429). For example, a woman was murdered
about the subject of forensics. This essay gives a summary of N. E. Genge’s book, The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation, and includes the things I disliked and liked about the book. The book gives a general overview of the field of forensic science. The sections of the book include “The Scene of the Crime; Working the Scene--The Evidence; Working the Scene of the Body Human;
degradation of a crime scene will happen, to a degree, as soon as the responding patrol officer enters the primary crime scene. Since the first responding officer had to check the victim for wounds and rule out medical attention, possible trace evidence on the floor could be compromised or lost. Next, the first responder had to secure the scene ensuring the suspect was no longer in the apartment at which time the officer’s fingerprints, hair, and DNA could now be contaminating the crime scene. Moreover
There are many T.V. shows about crimes, and make the work look simple, but it is way harder in real life. The crime scene investigators have to involve a lot of different specialties to find the suspect and who the victim’s family is.There are people that examine the body, they are forensic anthropologist. They find the cause of death from only the bones of the victim. Federal agents from the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) are some of the main investigators if there is a homicide but not
with the same dreadful scene, her choked to death and laying morbidly on the floor and an unnatural angle. Her therapist told her these dreams were brought about due becoming aware of here her mortality due to the death of her boyfriend six months ago in a car accident, and that it she could suffer and be the victim, but she knew better. She knew these were visions, and she knew she would not let it come true. Daysha Denise Abraham was a crime scene investigator of four
------------------------------------------------- Crime Scene Evidence Handling Melissa Factor CJ 498 Criminal Justice Capstone Professor Rachel Goguen 30JUN13 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Abstract Crime scene yellow tape is a well-known sight. In order to preserve the integrity of the evidence of a crime scene, human contact should be avoided. Crime scenes are immediately sealed off, preventing the public from
The TV series of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular literature of today’s entertainment delving into the concept and genre of detective/crime fiction. With multiple seasons under its belt the popular works has been able to create multiple concepts of this detective literature drawing on from writers creativity as well as the realistic crimes that have transpired past and present within our societies, evident in the text study of CSI season 1 episode 9 “Unfriendly Skies”. This popular literature
Being a crime scene investigator looks fun to do on movies but in real life it is hard work. You have to get in good colleges if you would to be one. A crime scene investigator is a specially trained police officer who is dispatched to a crime scene. You have to collect evidence the evidence might include blood, hair, thumb prints, and etc. You have to collect the evidence and try to figure out what happened. When you look at a scene you need the right equipment with you. If you don’t have the