CJ V08 - Criminal Investigation
- Recent Professors
- Michael Lazarus, Lazaro Salinas
- Recent Semesters
- Spring 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025
- Class Size
- 33–46 students
- Difficulty
- 4.5Moderateout of 10
- Credits
- 3
- Spring 2027 Sections
- View Spring 2027 sections of CJ V08
- Transfers To
- CSU
- Description
- This course stresses the fundamentals of criminal investigation. Topics include collection and preservation of evidence, scientific aids, modus operandi, sources of information, interviewing and interrogation techniques, follow-up and case preparation, criminal profiling, crime scene sketching, fingerprint analysis and D.N.A. A brief history of criminal investigation precedes the main course of instruction.
- Usually Held
- Tue Thu 1:00pm–2:15pm