OUR TOPICS IN ORDER:
Monday -- suspect - motive - alibi - confirm
Criminalistics
- Physical evidence
- Trace evidence analysis (hair, fiber, etc)
- Analysis of evidence and preserving crime scene
- Toolmarks and impressions; trauma
- Fingerprints
- Pattern evidence
- Bloodstain pattern analysis
Pathology and Biology
- Blood analysis
- DNA
- Bodily Fluids
- Death and decay
- Skeletonization
- Autopsy and when to exhume the body
Entomology
- How do insects help forensics
Toxicology
- Poisons
- Alcohol
- Drugs (including the difference between psychological and physical dependence)
- Detecting
Anthropology
- Skeletal examination
- Assessment of age at death
- Ethnic considerations
Odontology
- Bite marks
Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
- Criminal competency
- Behaviour
- Mental state
- Profiling
Environmental Forensics
- Chemical Detection
- How the environment affects the stages of decay
Document Analysis
- Handwriting analysis
Engineering and applied sciences
- Arson
- Explosions
- Crashes
Forensic Nursing
- Collection of medical evidence from victims of trauma and violence