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CRJ 311 NERD Education Expert

• CRJ 311 Entire Course (Ash)
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• 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!

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• CRJ 311 Week 1 Assignment The CSI Effect (Ash)
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• 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?

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• CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 1 Peer Review (Ash)
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• 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.

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• CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 2 Your First Scene (Ash)
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• 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?

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• CRJ 311 Week 1 Journal You're an Expert! (Ash)
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• CRJ 311 Week 1 Journal You're an Expert!

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• CRJ 311 Week 2 Assignment Conducting Your Own
  Field Sobriety Test (Ash)
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• 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.

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• CRJ 311 Week 2 DQ 1 Drugs and Scheduling (Ash)
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• 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.

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• CRJ 311 Week 2 DQ 2 Field Sobriety Tests (Ash)
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• 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. 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.

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• CRJ 311 Week 2 Journal SANE or Not (Ash)
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• CRJ 311 Week 2 Journal SANE or Not

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• CRJ 311 Week 3 Assignment Case Study Analysis The
  Enrique Camarena Case (Ash)
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• Case Study Analysis The Enrique Camarena Case 
• Read The Enrique Camarena Case A Forensic
  Nightmare. 
• Please address the following in detail
• Catalog the forensic evidence found in the
  Camarena Case.
• 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.

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• CRJ 311 Week 3 DQ 1 Hair Evidence (Ash)
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• After watching She Was Never in My Car, discuss
  the scenario below.
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• 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?

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• CRJ 311 Week 3 DQ 2 Arson Dogs (Ash)
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• 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.

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• CRJ 311 Week 3 Journal Professional Painter (Ash)
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• Professional Painter
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• 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.

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• CRJ 311 Week 4 Assignment What's Your Impression
  (Ash)
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• Whats Your Impression?
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• 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. Select one of the following learning
  activities on which to base this assignment.

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• CRJ 311 Week 4 DQ 1 Bite Mark Evidence (Ash)
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• 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).

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• CRJ 311 Week 4 DQ 2 Fingerprint Evidence (Ash)
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• 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. Your goal is to argue the
  importance of fingerprinting in our cases.
  Discuss three specific points why fingerprint
  evidence is crucial to our investigation.

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• CRJ 311 Week 4 Journal Cold Case Investigation
  (Ash)
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• Do You Have What It Takes?
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• 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?

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• CRJ 311 Week 5 DQ 1 Blood Patterns (Ash)
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• 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
  husbands 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 story,
  document your reasoning based on the evidence.

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• CRJ 311 Week 5 DQ 2 DNA Evidence (Ash)
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• 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 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.

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• CRJ 311 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash)
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• Final Paper
• In order to complete the Final Paper, watch one
  of the following videos
• Santy, C. (Director). (2007). Welcome to homicide
  Television series episode. In J. Brenkus M.
  Stern (Executive producers, Crime 360. New York,
  NY AE Television Networks.

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• CRJ 311 Week 5 Journal Cold Case Investigation
  (Ash)
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• Cold Case Investigation
• You have all heard of cold case investigative
  units and what they do. You are now a member of
  your local cold case unit. 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.

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