Assignment:
Watch the following videos:
Inside the Crime Lab: Latent Print Unit
Inside the Crime Lab: Firearms Toolmark Unit
Inside the Crime Lab: Forensic Chemistry Unit
Assignment Content
The crime scene investigator team you shadowed last week is on the move again with a new call. Now you will incorporate what you learned last week with the new information learned this week. Your team was instructed to collect the physical evidence at a crime scene.
Arriving at the crime scene, your team observes the following:
Shell casings
Bloody fingerprints
Drug paraphernalia
Write a 700 to 1,050 word crime scene report, completing the following:
1. Identify additional types of physical evidence the team may have encountered at the crime scene and their significance.
2. Describe the preservation and collection of the evidence.
3. Offer explanations for your selected methods for packaging the evidence.
Cite any original sources used in writing your report.