Write short synopses or answers in response to the specific topics or questions listed below. Include the word count at the end of each question.
The purpose of this exercise is to test your ability to assemble information on a subject from a number of sources, including module lectures and wider library references, and then distil this information down to the key aspects and provide a succinct answer. Some subject areas will not have been covered by lectures in the module before the coursework is due to be handed in. This is intentional and is designed to test your ability to undertake independent research on a subject.
You should include a list of references that you have used in the research at the end of each question. Two of the available ten marks will be given for the appropriateness of the references.
Simple figures and tables can be included and these (and associated legends) will not count towards the total word count.
1. Discuss the ways in which you could distinguish between a human head hair and a dog hair.
2. If you were to design a new ideal method for glass analysis, what features should it have? Which of the current techniques for glass analysis best meets your requirements?
3. Describe the intelligence information that might be determined from footwear marks recovered at a crime scene.
4. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using fibre evidence in forensic investigation.
5. You are about to give a forensic awareness briefing to a new Police Officer who is attending a crime scene for the first time. What are the most important things they should know?
6. Compare and contrast the use of two different tests for blood.