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CRJ 260 - Medicolegal Death Investigation


3 credits
This course is designed for students majoring in criminal justice. This course aims at making the subject of death investigation comprehensible to a wide variety of students who are planning on being aligned with the criminal justice profession. This course introduces the non-scientific student to the field of death investigations. This course provides information to conduct a scientific, systematic, and thorough death scene investigations. Content includes information regarding the investigation of natural, accidental, suicidal, and homicidal death. This course will help students refine their critical thinking skills as they evaluate various topics and concepts while searching for underlying connections between the concepts, which is a skill that should be beneficial in criminal justice careers. It also emphasizes personal responsibility in doing thorough, systematic, unbiased death investigations for the good of society.



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