Month: August 2025

Students should be able to elaborate on the need for a federal consent decree and its impact on law enforcement. From Chicago to Ferguson, federal consent decrees have been put in place because of identified errors due to a lack of law enforcement accountability. Although the target of consent decrees is to help correct a … Read more

You are an instructor for a state crime lab. It is your responsibility to start the basic training for the new candidates that upon completion of their training will report to crime scene units in their first assignments as crime scene investigators. Your first lesson involves explaining the 2 categories of physical evidence used for … Read more

Handling evidence is done for a number of reasons. After it is photographed, drawn in the crime scene sketch, and listed in the crime scene notes, it should be processed. There may be an analysis done at the scene and packages for storage in the evidence repository, or the evidence may be collected for transportation … Read more

In this assignment, you will be exploring tasks that an actual crime scene investigator might accomplish. There has been a murder in which it is clear that a person riding a mountain bike on the side of a dirt country road was intentionally struck down by a suspect. The suspect then stepped out of his or her vehicle and shot … Read more

Do you know what the term computer forensics means? Many people do not nor do they understand the techniques involved to find and obtain evidence. Computer forensics is part of digital forensic science, and the goal for the investigator is to examine forensically with the goal of identifying, obtaining, and analyzing digital information. Depending upon the skill … Read more

In this crime scene scenario, there are a number of evidence types that you will need to collect. The crime scene is a single-floor house with a burned-down tool shed in the back. There is a mailbox that appears to have been hit by a car backing out of the driveway. It is 90 degrees … Read more

Your Unit 4 Capstone paper is a culmination of everything you have researched about your selected topic in Criminal Justice. You will now synthesize your collected information. That means you will provide your personal assessment in a professional analysis in an 8-to-10-page Capstone research paper. Here is your roadmap: Unit 1 – You wrote a problem statement and described … Read more

In your Unit 3 Individual Project, you will create 8 APA formatted Annotated Bibliographies as part of your Capstone project. This is a 3-step process, as follows: Step 1: Search for, find and review existing literature (articles) about your Capstone topic. You may find information in the AIU library, online and from government websites. Do not … Read more

In Unit 4, you submitted your Capstone paper – and in Unit 5, you will now write a Capstone executive summary for it. An executive summary is a synopsis or a brief presentation of your Unit 4 Capstone project. In only 1-2 pages, it presents a “big picture view” of your Capstone scenario. As a hypothetical example, if you write … Read more

Assignment Details This Capstone class is a culmination of everything you have been exposed to at AIU, especially in your Criminal Justice coursework. For your Capstone project, you will select a single topic to work with through IP1, IP2, IP3, IP4 and IP5. You begin in IP1 by selecting your topic – and then writing … Read more