Unit INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES

Course
Legal services
Study-unit Code
A000776
Location
PERUGIA
Curriculum
Operatore giudiziario e della p.a.
Teacher
Mariangela Montagna
Teachers
  • Mariangela Montagna
  • Luciano Garofano
Hours
  • 27 ore - Mariangela Montagna
  • 9 ore - Luciano Garofano
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2020
Offered
2022/23
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Prof.ssa Mariangela Montagna. Part 1: General profiles of the criminal trial. Preliminary investigations: the role of the public prosecutor and the judicial police. - Investigation activities of the judicial police. - Investigation activities of the public prosecutor. - Defensive investigations. - The evidence between investigations and trial.
Part Two: Scientific and technological investigations. 1. The judicial inspection: tasks of investigative bodies - operational protocols - chain of custody. 2. The genetic investigation for identification purposes: coercive sampling - DNA test - DNA database - international judicial cooperation. 3. Investigation techniques: fingerprinting, balistic, BPA. 4. Psychology, criminology and criminal trial - criminal profiling and investigations. 6. Applications of neuroscience in the criminal trial. 7. Interceptions of conversations, communications and computerized flows. The computer sensor. Tracking using a GPS satellite system.

Gen. Luciano Garofano. Part II: Specialist profiles. 1. The judicial inspection. Preparation, arrival at the crime scene and execution of technical-scientific activities. Identification of visible and latent traces and their identification and documentation. Finding and packaging of finds and traces. The chain of custody. Documentation methods with the 3D Laser Scanner and with the drone. - 2. Biological traces. Generic, species and DNA tests. Interpretation of single and mixed profiles. The National DNA Database, forced sampling. - 3. The papillary traces. Identification and enhancement of visible and latent footprints. Physical, chemical, optical methods. AFIS and APIS. Shoe and tire prints. - 4. Terminal ballistics. Firearms, shells and bullets. Investigations under the buyer microscope. The Ballistics Database (IBIS). Products resulting from the explosion of firearms (GSR): sampling techniques, SEM-EDX analysis. The problem of innocent contamination. 5. BPA, the discipline that studies the shape, size and distribution of traces of blood. Qualitative and quantitative BPA.
Reference texts
Aa.Vv., L’assassinio di M. Kercher. Anatomia del processo di Perugia, coordinato da M. Montagna, Aracne editore, 2012.

Code of criminal procedure
Educational objectives
The course aims to provide knowledge and skills on the conduct of technical and scientific investigations, on the subjects that take part in them and on how to perform them.
Prerequisites
It' necessary the previous knowledge and exam of Criminal procedure.
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars
Learning verification modality
Oral examination
Extended program
Prof.ssa Mariangela Montagna. Part 1: General profiles of the criminal trial. Preliminary investigations: the role of the public prosecutor and the judicial police. - Investigation activities of the judicial police. - Investigation activities of the public prosecutor. - Defensive investigations. - The evidence between investigations and trial.
Part Two: Scientific and technological investigations. 1. The judicial inspection: tasks of investigative bodies - operational protocols - chain of custody. 2. The genetic investigation for identification purposes: coercive sampling - DNA test - DNA database - international judicial cooperation. 3. Investigation techniques: fingerprinting, balistic, BPA. 4. Psychology, criminology and criminal trial - criminal profiling and investigations. 6. Applications of neuroscience in the criminal trial. 7. Interceptions of conversations, communications and computerized flows. The computer sensor. Tracking using a GPS satellite system.

Gen. Luciano Garofano. Part II: Specialist profiles. 1. The judicial inspection. Preparation, arrival at the crime scene and execution of technical-scientific activities. Identification of visible and latent traces and their identification and documentation. Finding and packaging of finds and traces. The chain of custody. Documentation methods with the 3D Laser Scanner and with the drone. - 2. Biological traces. Generic, species and DNA tests. Interpretation of single and mixed profiles. The National DNA Database, forced sampling. - 3. The papillary traces. Identification and enhancement of visible and latent footprints. Physical, chemical, optical methods. AFIS and APIS. Shoe and tire prints. - 4. Terminal ballistics. Firearms, shells and bullets. Investigations under the buyer microscope. The Ballistics Database (IBIS). Products resulting from the explosion of firearms (GSR): sampling techniques, SEM-EDX analysis. The problem of innocent contamination. 5. BPA, the discipline that studies the shape, size and distribution of traces of blood. Qualitative and quantitative BPA.

INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES

Code A000776
Location PERUGIA
CFU 6
Teacher Mariangela Montagna
Learning activities Affine/integrativa
Area Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline IUS/16
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)

INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES

Code A000776
Location PERUGIA
CFU 3
Teacher Mariangela Montagna
Learning activities Affine/integrativa
Area Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline IUS/16
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
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