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2. CRJ 311 Entire Course (Ash) CRJ 311 Successful Learning For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.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 Scene CRJ 311 Week 1 Journal You're an Expert! For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.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. CRJ 311 Week 1 Assignment The CSI Effect (Ash)

3. CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 1 Peer Review (Ash) CRJ 311 Successful Learning For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.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. For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com Your First Scene 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? CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 2 Your First Scene (Ash)

4. CRJ 311 Week 1 Journal You're an Expert! (Ash) CRJ 311 Successful Learning For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com CRJ 311 Week 1 Journal You're an Expert! For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com This assignment will give you the opportunity to conduct your own field sobriety tests. As outlined in your text, there are three standardized tests used by an officer to determine if a suspect is impaired. Select one of the following learning activities on which to base this assignment. CRJ 311 Week 2 Assignment Conducting Your Own Field Sobriety Test (Ash)

5. CRJ 311 Week 2 DQ 1 Drugs and Scheduling (Ash) CRJ 311 Successful Learning For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com Some 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. For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com An officer responds to an accident in which a vehicle has crashed into a parked car. The driver seems to have the 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. CRJ 311 Week 2 DQ 2 Field Sobriety Tests (Ash)

6. CRJ 311 Successful Learning • CRJ 311 Week 2 Journal SANE or Not (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com CRJ 311 Week 2 Journal SANE or Not For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com Case Study Analysis: The Enrique Camarena Case Read “The Enrique Camarena Case – A Forensic Nightmare.” CRJ 311 Week 3 Assignment Case Study Analysis The Enrique Camarena Case (Ash)

7. CRJ 311 Successful Learning • CRJ 311 Week 3 DQ 1 Hair Evidence (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.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 For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.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. CRJ 311 Week 3 DQ 2 Arson Dogs (Ash)

8. CRJ 311 Successful Learning • CRJ 311 Week 3 Journal Professional Painter (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com Professional Painter Oftentimes, paint and fiber evidence is overshadowed by the more glamorous DNA evidence in cases today. Paint and fiber evidence is sometimes discounted as being mediocre evidence, at best, by jurors. With your newfound knowledge of how important this type of evidence can be in criminal cases For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com What’s Your Impression? This 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. CRJ 311 Week 4 Assignment What's Your Impression (Ash)

9. CRJ 311 Successful Learning • CRJ 311 Week 4 DQ 1 Bite Mark Evidence (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.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. For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com Thanks to Hollywood, firearms and the forensic information associate with them has been portrayed as the key piece of evidence in many “case.” Fingerprinting is oftentimes overshadowed. CRJ 311 Week 4 DQ 2 Fingerprint Evidence (Ash)

10. CRJ 311 Successful Learning • CRJ 311 Week 4 Journal Cold Case Investigation (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com Do You Have What It Takes? This week, you are to reflect on what you believe are the personal traits of a forensic scientists and if you have the same traits. What might you have to overcome in your personal make up to meet those requirements as you consider a career in the forensic science field? For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com Read “An Illustrative Homicide Case Involving Blood Patterns” in your text, and review the included photos of 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? CRJ 311 Week 5 DQ 1 Blood Patterns (Ash)

11. CRJ 311 Successful Learning • CRJ 311 Week 5 DQ 2 DNA Evidence (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com Detail how DNA is used in criminal investigations today. What is the current impact of DNA testing on the criminal justice system, and how has DNA revolutionized this system? For more course tutorials visit www.crj311.com Final Paper In order to complete the Final Paper, watch one of the following videos: 1 Santy, C. (Director). (2007). Welcome to homicide [Television series episode]. In J. Brenkus& M. Stern (Executive producers], Crime 360. New York, NY: A&E Television Networks. Available from the Films On Demand database. CRJ 311 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash)

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