Criminal Investigation

Unit 1: The Fourth Amendment and Legal Searches

Unit 2: Criminal Investigative Procedures

Unit 3: Crime Scene Searches Scenes and Writing Reports

Unit 4: Creating Crime Scene 

Sketches

Unit 5: Evidence Collection

Unit 6: Processing and Analyzing Trace Evidence

Unit 7:Professional Standards and Communication Skills 

Unit 8: Documenting Crime Scene and Report Writing

Unit 9: Identifying Drugs

Unit 11: Blood Splatter Analysis

Unit 12: Calculating Time and Cause of Death

Unit 13: Toxicology Laboratory Procedures

Unit 14: Serology Laboratory Procedures

Unit 15: Bullet and Tool Mark Impressions

Unit 16: Physical Evidence and Questioning Techniques

Unit 17: Creating a Suspect Profile

Unit 1: 1 Week

-The Fourth Amendment

- exclusionary rule, inevitable discovery exception, and good faith exception, and search warrant or consent to search during an investigation

- Terry v. Ohio

-Inventorying a Vehicle 

Unit 2: 2 Weeks

- procedures and job functions in criminal investigation

- preliminary investigations

- effectiveness of interrelationships with individuals involved in investigations

Unit 3: 2 Weeks

- Carrol v. United States, Chambers v. Florida, Chimel v. California, Mapp v. Ohio, Terry v. Ohio, and Weeks v. United States decisions

- how to conduct a variety of searches

-Systematic Search

- Police canines used to conduct legal searches.

Unit 4:1 Weeks

-Note Taking of Crime Scene

-Crime scene sketch using coordinates or measurements from fixed points

Unit 5: 3 Weeks

-Procedures of collecting evidence

-Elements of criminal law applied to:

search and seizure of persons, property, and evidence, 

the chain-of-custody procedure for evidence discovered in a crime scene

demonstrate proper techniques for collecting, marking, photographing, packaging, preserving, and transporting physical evidence 

use of video and still photography to preserve a simulated crime scene

Unit 6: 2 Weeks

- Carrol v. United States, Chambers v. Florida, Chimel v. California, Mapp v. Ohio, Terry v. Ohio, and Weeks v. United States decisions

- how to conduct a variety of searches

-Systematic Search

- Police canines used to conduct legal searches.

Unit 7: 2 Week

- explore and discuss employability skills, professional standards; the importance of teamwork in the field of criminal investigation

- Resources available through CTSO or other extracurricular organization(s) to further develop leadership

- research the field of criminal investigations

 -characteristics of an effective investigator, and the roles of crime scene investigators and detectives

Unit 8: 2 Weeks

- proper equipment for documenting the crime scene

- field notes and reports

- digital investigative photography: Documentative Process

- injuries, tool marks, fingerprints, tire impressions, footprints, bite marks, and other related evidence

- admissibility of photographs in a court of law

-Report writing 

Fall CCA

Unit 9: 2 Weeks

-classification of controlled substances using the schedules under the Controlled Substances Act

-Identification of controlled substances

Unit 10: 3 Week

-Three major fingerprint patterns of arches, loops, and whorls and their respective subclasses, identify minutiae of fingerprints, including bifurcations, ending ridges, islands, dots, short ridges, and enclosures

-AFIS

-laboratory procedures for lifting latent prints on nonporous objects

Unit 11: 2 Weeks

-Blood Splatter Analysis:

source, direction, and angle of trajectory

-the method of chemically identifying and locating an invisible blood stain

-Luminol

Unit 12: 2 Weeks

-Body decomposition

-Determining cause of death

-process and timeline of rigor mortis

-post mortem lividity

-entomology in crime scene investigation

Unit 13: 2 Weeks

-Toxicology laboratory procedures in crime labs

-absorption, distribution, and elimination of alcohol

-blood alcohol concentration

- proper preservation of blood samples while at a crime scene

Unit 14: 1 Week

-serology laboratory procedures

-methodologies used to collect and analyze other body fluids

Unit 15: 2 Weeks

- bullet and tool mark impressions

-characteristics of tool marks

-mechanism of modern firearms

 -composition and method of analysis for gunshot residue and primer residue

 -Characteristics of bullet and cartridge cases

-National Integrated Ballistics Information Network.

Unit 16: 2 Weeks

-Physical evidence and its use for questioning suspects

-victim, complainant, witness, and suspect

-interviewing vs. interrogating

-techniques for interviewing adults, juveniles, and children

Miranda Warnings during interviewing and interrogating

Unit 17: 3 Weeks

-Building suspect profile

-Composite sketch applications such as Identi-Kit

-Modus Operandi

-Techniques used to create photo line ups

Spring CCA

Required Project: 

-Research and Presentation on the field of criminal investigations

-Simulated Crime Scene Activity based on Crime Scene Photos

Required Project: --Analysis of Crime Scene Sketches with Presentations

-Simulated Crime Scene Activity based on Crime Scene Sketch and Proper Systematic Searches

Required Project: 

-Simulated Crime Scene Activity based on Crime Scene Evidence Collection and presentation to a Mock Court of Law

Required Project: -

-Simulated Crime Scene Activity: Fingerprint Lab with the known impression 

Blood Spatter Lab

Required Project: -Crime laboratory procedures to determine if a stain detected in a crime scene is blood

Additional  Activities: 

Role playing scenarios with Interrelationships with individuals involved in crime scene investigation

Additional  Activities:

-Inventorying of Vehicle

Additional  Activities:

-trace evidence process and analysis techniques Lab

-Fingerprint Lab

Additional  Activities:

-Research Paper on Ballistics and Crime Scenes

Cycle 1: 

-Professionalism

-Ethics

127.15(1)(A)

127.15(1)(E)

127.15(1)(F)

127.15(1)(G)

127.15(1)(H)

127.15(1)(I)

127.15(1)(K)

127.15(1)(L)

127.15(1)(M)

Cycle 2: 

-Teamwork

-Problem Solving

127.15(1)(B)

127.15(1)(I)

Cycle 3:

-Self Management Skill

-Conflict Resolution

-Leadership

127.15(1)(B)

127.15(1)(D)

127.15(1)(E)

127.15(1)(F)

127.15(1)(G)

127.15(1)(H)

127.15(1)(I)

127.15(1)(J)

127.15(1)(M)

Cycle 4:

Communication Skills

127.15(1)(C)