When I was in the process of graduating, one of the only things I was allowed to create wholecloth from my learned information (rather than find and compile or amend and reflect on from past work) was a series of "Physical Evidence Worksheets." The worksheet itself was created by Dr. Brent Horn and last amended in 2018. The caveat in filling them out was that we were not allowed to choose fingerprint-type evidence, which had been provided as an example; but, rather, broad categories we had examined in our coursework. Of these, I chose blood stains, footwear impressions, and (my personal favorite) DNA.
Now that I have graduated, however, I am under no such obligations to stay limited in scope, and want to both narrow my focus and expand it further while amending the general idea to suit my own purposes, hence the projects I am working on here. These may include examples and photographs from my actual work to demonstrate concepts I am gesturing to; but, in all, are meant to contribute to my portfolio and demonstrate my working knowledge of these concepts.
The original form provided spaces for the type of evidence, course and semester where it was covered, representative objects constituting the type of evidence, tools used for analysis, forensically-valuable properties and the processes used to create them, and the probative value of the evidence itself (including a range of conclusions). Dr. Horn also included instructions for how to complete the form, with a minimum of two pages and the framing of "imagine that you are explaining these concepts to a detective, an attorney or a jury." As such, the posts will pull from this general form without using the same formatting (given the constraints of where I am putting this information).
At some point, I will probably put the information back into the worksheet format, but this works for now.
This also serves as a register, of sorts, of the topics I have covered, which will be linked below for ease of access. This should be updated and edited regularly, as such.
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