Criminal Investigation Principles     Syllabus

Course Syllabus:  CJ205 Course Overview_S19_EGomez_.pdf

Meet Your Instructor:

Mr. Ernie Gomez, Adjunct Instructor

E-mail: Gomez_Ernie@sac.edu

Office Hours: Friday, 12pm to 1pm, Learning Center, D-307

Course Description:

Techniques, procedures, and ethical issues in the investigation of crime.  Emphasis upon organization of the investigative process, crime scene searches, interviewing and interrogating, surveillance, sources of information, utility of evidence, scientific analysis of evidence, and the role of the investigator in the trial process.

Textbook Information:

Criminal Investigation Basic Perspectives, 13^thEdition. Lushbaugh & Weston. New York: Pearson.  ISBN: 0-13-351440-4

Student Learning Objectives:

1. Identify and explain the role of documentation in the criminal investigative process.
2. Recognize, identify, and explain the implications of evidence in the criminal

    investigation process.

3. Identify ethical issues relating to criminal investigation.
4. Describe successive stages of the criminal investigative process.
5. Identify procedures for first responders to crime scenes.
6. Describe the duties related to the basic functions of crime scene management

    (management control, evidence search and processing, general area investigation).

7. Identify the role of forensic examination in the criminal investigative process.
8. Compare and contrast the legalities and strategies of interviews and interrogations.
9. Identify key information sources and data systems available to investigators.
10. Explain the role of the investigator in the judicial process.