Blood is the best known as significant evidence in modern criminal justice. Blood evidence is important to an investigator because it can link a victim to a suspect (Locards Exchange Principle). Bloodstain patterns can reveal a great deal about the position and movement during the crime. Blood has managed to destroy self-defense arguments from the suspects. The fluid portion of the blood consists of plasma and serum while the non-fluid portion consists of red blood cells. Blood is composed of water
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Database basket in the Dropbox by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday at the end of Week 4. The guidelines and grading rubric for this assignment may be found in Doc Sharing. Name: Jeanne McIsaac Describe briefly your topic of interest (15 possible points): Evidence proves that breast feeding healthy newborns skin to skin within the first hour of life can have a direct impact on decreasing hypothermia‚ hypoglycemia and increasing exclusivity then babies dried and swaddled. #1 Database (or collection) (30
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Value and Preservation of Evidence Kaplan University CJ370-01 January 16‚ 2012 The value of footprint or footwear evidence is heavily important. The most valuable details are signs of wear‚ characteristic fittings or marks of fittings that have come off‚ injuries‚ marks of nails and pegs‚ especially when these are irregularly placed‚ and repair marks. If they are particularly characteristic or occur in sufficient numbers‚ such details may form decisive evidence. In the interest of thoroughness
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Gathering Evidence Amber Zamora ENG101 September 21‚ 2013 Melissa Ortiz Week 2: Assignment 2 – Gathering Evidence and Evaluating Resources Example of evaluating a source: Subject 1: Gun control attitudes in the United States. Source: Celinska‚ K. (2007). Individualism and collectivism in america: The case of gun ownership and attitudes toward gun control. Sociological Perspectives‚ 50(2)‚ 229-247. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/213988090
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Alison McCracken Professor Harrison English 100 19 Aug. 2012 Knowledge is Power vs. Knowledge is Pain. Metaphors are not just a part of everyday language. Whether we realize it or not‚ they are actually deeply ingrained in our psyche and therefore have practical repercussions in our lives. "Knowledge is Power" is a metaphor to which we can easily relate. It expresses who we are as individuals and our personal drive for success. It defines us as teachers‚ parents and leaders. It dictates
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statements by Blair fall under an exception to the hearsay rule‚ Fed.R.Evid. 804(b)(3)‚ which provides that when a declarant is unavailable as a witness‚ statements against interest are not excluded by hearsay. When a prosecutor seeks to introduce evidence of a statement that inculpates the accused‚ a number of courts require that statement be against the declarants interest and that there be corroboration. Factors that courts look at for corroboration include motive‚ general character of the declarant
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The Nature of Knowledge True belief‚ justification and rationality In the study of knowledge we distinguish between knowledge by acquaintance‚ in essence to know someone or know of something. Ability knowledge is for example to know how to swim or how to ride a bike. And‚ our main concern‚ propositional knowledge that is sentences or statements that can be either true or false. To have knowledge one needs to have a belief and for
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other gladiators. Some was volunteers who risked their lives. Most were considered as slaves‚ schooled under harsh conditions‚ socially marginalized even in death. Their origin gladiators offered spectators in fighting or dying will. There is evidence of it in funeral rites during the Punic wars of the third century. The gladiator games lasted for thousands of years‚ the games early declined in the fifth century. After the adoption of Christianity in 380‚ on later in the century’s there
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* Knowledge Retention Strategies in Industries * A brief introduction Knowledge management is the systematic process of finding‚ selecting‚ organizing‚ distilling and presenting information. Tacit knowledge is the knowledge we each carry in our heads about how to do things‚ who to call and the lessons learned through experience. Making it explicit is recording in some media that allows another person to use it. The media can be a complex computer database or a piece of paper tacked
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Paper‚ checks‚ currency‚ unfinished wood‚ and cardboard are all examples of porous evidence. At a crime scene this type of item might be a tissue box‚ pieces of mail‚ business cards‚ pictures‚ books‚ notes‚ and walls with porous types of paint. There are a few different processes available to lift a print from a porous item; it really depends on the condition of the item. Investigators often use chemical methods such as iodine fuming‚ silver nitrate‚ or ninhydrin to locate latent prints on porous
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