Review your Week 1 Discussion. Choose a different forensic discipline that you now find interesting after learning more about it in this class and answer the following questions for your chosen discipline.
1. What is it about this discipline that you find interesting?
2. Provide a brief description of how this discipline is used to solve crime.
3. Describe a news article, real life case, or event in which your chosen discipline was used to solve a crime.
This is what i wrote on my week 1 disscussion
- It is interesting to see how forensic science is portrayed in the media. The media portrays forensic science in various ways; for instance, CSI science-fiction television is not a reality; in a police investigation, there is always an odd man out. There has to be a significant change in the story or last-minute clues just recently discovered, there is always a twist, but in real life, those kinds of things do not happen; the evidence takes longer to discover, and the evidence takes longer to find, and it is harder to identify, and takes a special skill to discover what is objective evidence because not everything in a crime scene is evident in that crime scene.
- You must include notes for the photographs and sketches followed up by a report. It starts the chain of custody and allows the court to see the evidence from the beginning of the crime scene; forensic means about the law you are only applying science to the law 50% of forensic science is written reports and explaining to the court what you did in an understandable method. There is specific stuff that you must do in order to analyze the information correctly, which consists of specific steps that you must do in order to analyze the information correctly, which consist of reorganization of evidence, documentation, collection, and preservation, analyzing, interpretation, reporting, and testifying.
- Ted Bundy, he was a serial killer. He killed over 30 people, but there was little evidence to associate him with the crimes and murders. However, later he murdered three other people, and there was actual physical evidence to incriminate him. Lisa Levy’s buttock displayed a bite mark that matched Bundy’s crooked and chipped teeth. Due to a fiber found in his van of, Kimberly Leach, 12 years old, he was found guilty of murder.