This course focuses on the collection, identification and analysis of crime scene evidence. Emphasis will be placed on the methods that link suspect, victim, and crime scene. Laboratory exercises will include finger printing, handwriting analysis, ballistics, blood typing, hair and fiber examination, and DNA analysis. Case studies and current events will be explored.

Unit 1: Physical Evidence

Unit 2: The Crime Scene 

Unit 3: Fingerprinting

Unit 4: Blood Evidence

Unit 5: DNA

Unit 6: Questioned Documents

Unit 7: Toxicology

Unit 8: Anthropology

Unit 9: Autopsies and Entomology