FORENSIC WEEK 3

READ CHAPTERS 8,9,11

Watch the following videos:

• Inside the Crime Lab: Latent Print Unit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJEEzGLCcs

• Inside the Crime Lab: Firearms Toolmark Unit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf3n0aXVHkk

• Inside the Crime Lab: Forensic Chemistry Unit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AnRtHHwxYc

Assignment Content

1. 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: 
  
• Identify additional types of physical evidence the team may have encountered at the crime scene and their significance.
• Describe the preservation and collection of the evidence.
• Offer explanations for your selected methods for packaging the evidence.

• Cite any original sources used in writing your report.