Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Day 19 - Tuesday October 5. 2010

A - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today we are going to start with your third quiz dealing with the topics we covered in Law 9/10 last week (organized & disorganized criminals, serial killer pathology, profiling and geographic profiling). After your quiz, we are going to continue your look at crime scene investigation procedures and we will begin our work on our case study project.


You will need to imagine that you are a constable in the Comox Valley R.C.M.P. detachment specializing in criminalistics and crime scene analysis. You are going to create a crime scene dossier file that you would normally put together for the Crown Counsel. You have been called out to a crime scene here in the Comox Valley and when you arrive at the scene you need to begin your narrative report. What do you need to do?

•Create a crime (ex: murder, arson, kidnapping, assault)
•Choose eight pieces of evidence (from the list below) that you would find at the crime scene and either help you solve the crime or mislead the investigators
•Create a victim, a perpetrator, two other potential subjects, & witnesses (not necessary)
•Create a dossier file that contains the following: a walk through narrative; pictures of the eight pieces of evidence (with a description, a tag number, and an explanation of where it was found); a detailed crime scene diagram/sketch with pictures of what the crime scene looked like and the identification of evidence; forensics lab sheets for each piece of evidence that describes the evidence and explains what the evidence tells you; transcripts of any interviews conducted by investigators (including potential eyewitnesses or suspects); a narrative of how you "solved" the crime so that the Crown Counsel can move forward with laying charges and proceed to trial.

Evidence to choose from: human hair, synthetic hair, carpet fibres, cotton fibres, bullet cartridges, bullet holes, finger prints, foot/shoe prints, blood stains (drip, splatter, pool), bodily fluids, skin epithelials, tube of lipstick, can of coke, apple core, piece of rope, body, accellerants, matches, money (wallet), poisons, bugs or larvae (blowflies), cigar or cigarette but, mug, tire treads, or any other trace evidence but you must approve the other evidence with me.

I will have examples for you to look at and we will also work on this next week in class.

D - Geography 12 - Yesterday we took some notes about the five types of volcanoes and watched Bill Nye talk about them....Volcanoes!

Today I will show you some footage of the Kilauea eruption (both pahoehoe and aa flows) and the Soufriere Hills volcanic eruption on Montserrat. We'll then look at the differences between explosive and effusive volcanic eruptions (think silica and gas) and you'll have a big question to look at. Tomorrow we will focus on Mount Saint Helens, Thursday we'll look at our case study and focus on Mount Rainier and then both Friday and next Tuesday (after Thanksgiving) we're in the library working on our first project. For more on what makes an explosive as opposed to an effusive eruption look at:

C - Law 12 - The governor called...you've got your reprieve and stay of execution! Hooray! Today you were supposed to have your unit final so you have the block to prepare for it. You may use the class to prepare and to finish up any of the work from the first unit that I had up on the board and posted on the blog yesterday. Please come prepared for tomorrow morning's unit final. Good luck.

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