LAW 7210 - Law and Policy Forensics

Credit Hours: 3

An interdisciplinary course covering law, criminal justice, technology in the evidentiary arena. Coverage in the course provides a broad based assessment of expert witnesses, microanalysis, pathological evidence, admissibility and investigatory practice, ballistics, fingerprints, vascar/radar, and photographic techniques. Contrasted with criminalistics, subject matter of this course is primarily evidentiary. More particularly, course will delve into the rules of evidence that guide the admissibility of forensic evidence in a court of law. Examination includes threshold tests for reliability and admissibility, qualification of witnesses competent to testify; scientific rigor required for admission and case law determinations on the use and abuse of scientific evidence.