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2. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Entire Course (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • CRJ 311 Week 1 Assignment The CSI Effect • CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 1 Peer Review • CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 2 Your First Scener

3. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 1 Assignment The CSI Effect (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Read “Fact or Fiction?; The Jury is Still Out on the CSI Effect; A TV-Insprired Interest in Forensics Has Left the Courtroom Vulnerable to Junk Science,” which is located in the ProQuest database in the Ashford Online Library. • What is the CSI Effect, and do you believe it is a legitimate concern? • In your paper, address the following: • 1. Summarize the CSI Effect and evaluate if it is a legitimate concern

4. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 1 Peer Review (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Do you see value in the peer review process, as outlined in Chapter 1 of your text? Between the New England Journal of Medicine, your local newspaper, and a television news report, which do you believe is a more credible source? Why? Explain your method of evaluation in determining if a source is reliable.

5. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 2 Your First Scene (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • You are the lead investigator of a small agency, which means your forensic lab is limited. You are called to a report of a decomposed body. Your scene is a decaying body lying in the shrub along a busy freeway. What are your steps in securing the scene and evidence? What steps will you take to correctly process this scene? Include and specifically address the following: • 1. How to thoroughly record a crime scene including searching the scene • 2. Packaging physical evidence • 3. Maintaining proper chain of custody

6. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 1 Journal You're an Expert! (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • CRJ 311 Week 1 Journal You're an Expert!

7. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 2 DQ 1 Drugs and Scheduling (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • stimulants can be used in the treatment of hyperactive disorders, which can lead to abuse. Do you think more scheduling is necessary to prevent this? If so, what type of criteria should be included? Argue your opinion as to why the above listed criteria need to be included. If not, argue your reasons for leaving the scheduling as it is. • While the schedule of a drug will help determine the severity of the charge against a suspect in a drug case, the amount of drug also plays a factor. Explain the necessity of the following: • 1. Analysis of drugs in a criminal case

8. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 2 DQ 2 Field Sobriety Tests (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath but does not exhibit any other signs of impairment. The officer conducts several field sobriety tests on the driver. One of the most familiar sobriety tests is the walk and turn test. Do you think this is an effective way to judge whether a person has been drinking? Why or why not? Inventory the benefits and drawbacks.

9. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 2 Journal SANE or Not (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • SANE or Not? • You have had an opportunity to read about sexual assault cases and the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) personnel involved in these emotional types of cases. SANE personnel are helping many sexual assault victims through the judicial process. Reflect on what you think makes an excellent SANE employee and what similarities you would bring to the field. What are some additional qualities you would bring to this

10. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 3 Assignment Case Study Analysis The Enrique Camarena Case (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Please address the following in detail: • 1. Catalog the forensic evidence found in the Camarena Case. • 2. Summarize the steps followed by the crime scene investigators including the mistakes and/or correct steps followed to process the scene through the criminal justice system

11. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 3 DQ 1 Hair Evidence (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • After watching “She Was Never in My Car,” discuss the scenario below. • You are given the black hairs collected from the car seat of the possible suspect in this case. These hairs could be human or animal. How would you go about analyzing and comparing these samples? In court, the Defense challenges your findings in this case as circumstantial. How might you defend your trace evidence?

12. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 3 DQ 2 Arson Dogs (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Arson dogs are useful tools for finding accelerants in locations where human investigators cannot. Some believe that arson dogs and their indication of possible accelerant residue should not be used as evidence in court. • Do you think arson dogs come up with better results than a chemical sniffer? Why or why not? Provide evidence to support your opinion.

13. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 4 Assignment What's Your Impression (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • assignment will give you the opportunity to create and evaluate your own impression evidence. As you have read in your textbook, pattern evidence is, for the most part, examined by the naked eye. Select one of the following learning activities on which to base this assignment. • 1. Create two impression patterns of your choice. This can include

14. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 4 DQ 1 Bite Mark Evidence (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Bite marks are no longer considered a way to specifically identify someone, but it can be used to exclude or include a person of interest. As a juror on a homicide case, you have heard an odonotologist discuss the bite mark evidence located on the victim and how the suspect cannot be excluded as to whom the bite mark belongs. Review the bite mark photo (below). • If your last name begins with A-L, argue your opinion as to how the bite mark would possibly exclude the suspect.

15. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 4 DQ 2 Fingerprint Evidence (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • piece of evidence in many “case.” Fingerprinting is oftentimes overshadowed. Your goal is to argue the importance of fingerprinting in our cases. Discuss three specific points why fingerprint evidence is crucial to our investigation. • If your last name begins with A-L, address the following: • 1. How might you enlighten those who believe fingerprint evidence no longer has a place in forensic investigation? • 2. Support your thoughts with at least one crime case.

16. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 5 DQ 1 Blood Patterns (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • evidence. • Looking at the bloodstain patterns on the husband’s clothing, and considering what you have learned about bloodstain patterns, are the patterns consistent with his story? If you do not think they are, why not? If your opinion is one that believes they add credibility to his

17. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 5 DQ 2 DNA Evidence (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • For students whose last name ends with A-L, include one case study of how DNA exonerated a person previously convicted of a crime and identify those areas you have discussed above. • For students whose last name ends with M-Z, include one case study of how DNA has helped convict a guilty person of a crime and identify those areas you have discussed

18. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com CRJ 311 Week 5 Journal Cold Case Investigation (ASH) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • As they are responsible for reviewing an old, unsolved case, you will be required to review the facts and evidence associated with the case to specifically see if there is some sort of forensic technology that was not available at the time, which you now have at your disposal. If you were the one looking into an old case, what would you be looking for that DNA profiling could be helpful with? Reflect on how you might feel as the family member of a loved one whose case has been unsolved for many

19. CRJ 311 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com for more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com