DNA and Property Crime Scene Investigation: Forensic Evidence and Law Enforcement by 
Forensic Evidence Field Guide: A Collection of Best Pracitices by Topic 1. Evidence Recovery
What type of evidence can be recovered from the body, either dead or alive? Be sure to provide an answer not already supplied by your classmates.
Topic 2. Trace Evidence
Many different types of trace evidence can be found at a crime scene. Identify one piece of trace evidence and explain where it can be located on the crime scene. Make sure that you only post one type of trace evidence so that your classmates can post the remaining. Also make sure that you do not use one of your classmates' pieces of trace evidence.
Use the resources on this page to help you respond to the discussion topics.
Below are suggested keywords to try on the Find page of this guide and in any of the suggested databases below.
Try searching with and without quotation marks to see how your search results vary. The quotation marks tell the database to look for the words together.
Finding Journal Articles and other Publications
To search for reputable journal articles, search ProQuest Criminal Justice, a subset of ProQuest Central that focuses just on the law enforcement-related journals provided by ProQuest. This helps focus your research and cuts out publication types unlikely to have good info on this topic like newspapers.
Finding Articles in Reference Sources - Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Looking for simple topic overviews? Gale eBooks is a great place to start your research.
Below is a search example displaying results in Gale eBooks:
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