UNIVERSITY OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND POLICE STUDIES

UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC STUDIES

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Course:

Basics of Forensics

Course Code: 2.11

ECTS: 5

Course Status:

Compulsory

Number of Effective Classes (Per Week): 3 + 2

Theoretical Education:

Practical Training:

Special Forms of Training:

3

2

-

Prerequisite/s: None

Educational Objective: Acquiring knowledge about forensics as a multidisciplinary branch of science that uses methods of fundamental, applied and legal sciences to identify objects in criminalistics.

Projected Outcome: Training students to recognize the role, significance and application of forensic methods in criminal practice.

Subject Contents

Theoretical education: Definition of forensics as a scientific discipline; Basic branches of forensics; Methods of natural and applied sciences used in forensics to identify objects (persons, objects, and traces of materials) in criminalistics for clarification or resolution of a criminal event; Application of these methods in computer systems. Assessment of system security to prevent attacks in the future. Computer records and legal framework.

Practical training: Detection of latent fingerprints, detection of material traces, determination of chemical characteristicsof materials (density and viscosity), microscopy of hair and fibers, determination of biometric characteristics (digitalphoto, photorobot), scanners and detectors.

Teaching Methods: lectures, presentations.

Assessment (Maximum Number of Points: 100)

Pre-Exam Obligations

No. of Points

Final Examination

No. of Points

Active participation in classes

5.00

Oral examination

30.00

Practical training

30.00

 

 

(Mid)Term test(s)

20.00

 

 

Research paper/study

15.00

 

 

Textbook/s

1. Максимовић, Р.; Бошковић, М.; Тодорић, У., Методе физике, хемије и физичке хемије у криминалистици Београд: Полицијска академија 1998

2. Машковић, Љ.; Бјеловук, И., Криминалистичка техника: практикум са радним листовима Београд: Криминалистичко-полицијска академија 2011

3. Houck, M.M.; Siegel, J.A., Fundamentals of forensic science Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier/Academic Press 2006

4. James, S.H.; Nordby, J.J. (eds.), Forensic science: an introduction to scientific and investigative techniques Boca Raton: CRC Press 2003