This lesson addresses: The Court Process, the three basic theories of corrections, the history of prisons in America and the goals of corrections.
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This lesson addresses: The history, roles, and types of private security.
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This lesson addresses: Handcuffing techniques, correct search procedureof an arrestee, and booking an arrestee into jail.
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This lesson addresses: Search warrant requirement, and uses of a K-9 in a vehicle search,
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This lesson addresses: Demonstration of a correct vehicle search, and which exceptions to the search warrant requirement apply in a scenario.
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This lesson addresses: The difference between a high risk stop and an unknown risk stop, and how and when to transition to a high risk stop
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Introduction to Criminal Investigation, Processes, Practices, and Thinking is a teaching text designed to assist the student in developing their own structured mental map of processes, practices, and thinking to conduct criminal investigations. Delineating criminal investigation into operational descriptors of tactical-response and strategic response while using illustrations of task-skills and thinking-skills, the reader is guided into structured thinking practices. Using the graphic tools of a “Response Transition Matrix”, an “Investigative Funnel”, and the “STAIR Tool”, the reader is shown how to form their own mental map of investigative thinking that can later be articulated in support of forming their reasonable grounds to believe.
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This lesson addresses: The importance of key events/people that advanced the field of forensics, and how trace evidence became important in advancing forensics techniques.
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Students perform DNA forensics using food coloring to enhance their understanding of DNA fingerprinting, restriction enzymes, genotyping and DNA gel electrophoresis. They place small drops of different food coloring ("water-based paint") on strips of filter paper and then place one paper strip end in water. As water travels along the paper strips, students observe the pigments that compose the paint decompose into their color components. This is an example of the chromatography concept applied to DNA forensics, with the pigments in the paint that define the color being analogous to DNA fragments of different lengths.
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This video will help students, particularly those not in AP-level classes, have a practical application for knowing about the major divisions between plants, particularly about the details of plant anatomy and reproduction. Students will be able to :Identify the major evolutionary innovations that separate plant divisions, and classify plants as belonging to one of those divisions based on phenotypic differences in plants. Classify plants by their pollen dispersal methods using pollen dispersal mapping, and justify the location of a _crime scene_ using map analysis. Analyze and present their analysis of banding patterns from DNA fingerprinting done using plants in a forensic context.
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This lesson addresses: The seven steps of the scientific process, and how the scientific process would be applied to the field of forensics.
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This lesson addresses: How Locard's principle of exchange is commonly used, and characteristics that are used to classify evidence.
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This lesson addresses: The stages of the criminal profiling process, and how victimology is used.
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This lesson addresses: In three days of lab time, students analyze research for psychological traits of a murderer, including evidence that resolved a case. Students create presentations on their research conclusions to the class. Over 51% of this lesson is in the lab.
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This lesson addresses: Common psychological characteristics of serial killers, and how criminal profiling applies to serial killers.
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it would be ideal if students already have learned that DNA is the genetic material, and that DNA is made up of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs. It also would help if students already know that each human has two versions of every piece of DNA in their genome, one from mom and one from dad. The lesson will take about one class period, with roughly 30 minutes of footage and 30 minutes of activities.
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Students use DNA profiling to determine who robbed a bank. After they learn how the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) is used to match crime scene DNA with tissue sample DNA, students use CODIS principles and sample DNA fragments to determine which of three suspects matches evidence obtain at a crime location. They communicate their results as if they were biomedical engineers reporting to a police crime scene investigation.
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This lesson addresses: Qualifying criteria for domestic violence, circumstances when an officer can make an arrest for domestic violence, and actions an officer must take for a victim of domestic violence.
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Law & Public Safety Instructional Resources including Program Technical Standards, Professional Skill Standards, Blueprint for Instruction and Assessment, Instructional Framework, Instructional Terminology, and Identified Industry Certifications List.
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In this book, you will examine the moral and ethical issues that exist within law enforcement. This book will also familiarize you with the basic history, principles, and theories of ethics. These concepts will then be applied to the major components of the criminal justice system: policing, the courts, and corrections. Discussion will focus on personal values, individual responsibility, decision making, discretion, and the structure of accountability. Specific topics covered will include core values, codes of conduct, ethical dilemmas, organizational consequences, liability, and the importance of critical thinking. By the end of this book, you will be able to distinguish and critically debate contemporary ethical issues in law enforcement.
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