Essays on Bodily Fluids

Introduction

The Ebola virus has existed for centuries. Like all life forms and viruses, it has been changing and adapting since the beginning of time to survive. Despite this the disease did not make itself known until the twentieth century. However, once the virus revealed itself only three major outbreaks have occurred. There were two in 1976 and one which took started in 2014 (CDC, 2015). The latest outbreak has been the longest and worst, effecting numerous countries such as, Mali, Nigeria, Liberia and Senegal in West Africa (CDC, 2015). This paper will look at the scientific aspects of the ...

Question 1: What restrictions apply to a crime scene investigator with regard to a body within the crime scene? Explain.

The crime scene investigator is responsible for the recovery of evidences in a crime scene. Among the evidences that a crime scene investigator collect with regards to a body at a crime scene are bodily fluids such as blood and semen, nail scrapings, hair and the patterns in the blood stains (Byrd, n.d.). When at the crime scene, it is imperative that investigators should make determine any changes done with the body, ask who were involved with the said changes, and verify why the changes were made. Additionally, investigators should approach the body one at a time. The investigator ...

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Documenting and investigating a crime scene are important procedures to investigating a crime, and assigning culpability as an investigator documents, recognizes, and collects physical evidence as the scene of a crime. In order for a crime to be solved, and culpability assigned it is critical for the investigator to reconstruct the scene by putting each piece of evidence together in order to paint a picture of what happened at the scene of the crime. The principle that guides the crime investigation process is called Locard's Exchange Principle. This principle suggests that something physical is always ...