Forensic pathology

main goal of a computer forensic investigator is to conduct investigations through the application of evidence gathered from digital data. As a forensic investigator, it’s important to have a strong understanding of the different types of evidence that maybe encountered and the appropriate steps for retrieving and preserving it. The information that is collected during an investigation is extremely fragile and must be properly processed. In order to accomplish this, forensic scientists use a…

Forensic Psychology Portrayed in the Media Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, created by Dick Wolf, is a television show that follows detectives who work towards investigating and solving sexually based crimes (CTV WEBSITE source 1). Season 14 episode 19 called “Born Psychopath” follows a wealthy family of four whose ten year old son, Henry, begins tormenting his family and neighbors within his building (NETFLIX, SOURCE 2). Forensic psychology is “the practice of psychology within or in…

Career Field Report: Criminal Profiler High school was a hard time for me because I didn’t like school at all. My junior and senior year I was home schooled through K12 Online Public School. I wasn’t planning on going to college at all until the middle of my senior year I really started to think about going to college. In May 2012 I applied to go to Sheridan College and was thinking about the Criminal Justice because I was leaning towards being an attorney. I declared my major as Criminal…

Ones job choice is a very large and important decision one must make in there early adulthood. It is something they will do for a majority of their lives, as well as be ones income. When choosing a job it is important to look at many factors for it is not just something you can fall right into. Job qualifications can range from certain college degrees all the way to the hours required. Being in the criminal justice field, I have found that the career of a crime scene investigator (CSI) interests…

Computer Forensics Investigator has been predicted to be one of the fastest and best paying jobs on the criminal justice field, this fairly new field that consists of anything from digital artifacts to network and databases analyzation. (criminaljusticedegreeschools). Computer forensic has become a major important factor in many cases dealing with computer crimes such as financial fraud, unauthorized intrusion, identity theft and homicides, drugs related crimes, or pornography. This field…

D. Fingerprinting is an impression or mark made on the surface by a person's finger tip. It is used for identifying individuals from the unique pattern of whorals and lines. This fingerprinting is valuable to detectives case because the detective who has the mystery case, where a person was murdered would use fingerprinting. You would use fingerprinting to track down the murder and the bystander. How you can see fingerprinting is not with the naked eye but with a special light. Fluorescent…

Journal Article Reflection I read an article titled “Fraud Squad, Top Eight Ways to Win a Circumstantial Arson Case” by Cynthia L Bernstiel”. Just as the title implies, the article gives readers tips on how to win a circumstantial arson case. This article interested me because I was curious to how circumstantial arson cases get solved. A fire claim where a house is completely destroyed is a huge loss that insurance companies do no pay off lightly. After reading this article I learned a thing…

An Entomological Study to Determine the Time since Death in Cases of Decomposed Bodies is a brief and informative article written by Parmod Goyal. The article begins with an abstract, which first defines forensic entomology as “the application of knowledge of insects during the investigation of crimes or other legal matters.” Determining the time since death of a human is extremely important, but finding this specific time becomes more difficult as the body decomposes. Although in the early…

Some are easy to detect, others are not and require prioritization to handle the data from its original location, create an analysis plan, gather the evidence, and create the evidence reports which must comply with all the laws that affect digital forensics. The increase in connectivity means an increase in the difficulty to gather and secure information to maintain threats to a minimum due to the amount of knowledge that those breaking the law can acquire to attempt to deter the efforts of…

Coroner's Toolkit is a group of basically free tools designed by Wietse Venema and Dan Farmer to be used in the forensic analysis of a UNIX machine. There are several reasons as to why local law enforcement agencies. First, the Coroner's Toolkit is specifically designed to be used in cyber-crime investigation (Farmer & Venema, 2005). This is an exceptionally powerful suite and therefore proper training of UNIX is a major condition in order to manage the Toolkit. Another important reason for…