Unit FORENSICS INVESTIGATIONS

Course
Legal services
Study-unit Code
A002863
Location
PERUGIA
Curriculum
Law and technologies
Teacher
Mariangela Montagna
Teachers
  • Mariangela Montagna
  • (Codocenza)
Hours
  • 30 ore - Mariangela Montagna
  • 10 ore (Codocenza) -
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2024/25
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Parte I: 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.

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. - 2. Biological traces. Generic, species and DNA tests. Interpretation of single and mixed profiles.. - 3. The papillary traces. Identification and enhancement of visible and latent footprints. - 4. Balistics.- 5. 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
Other information
For student DSA see
https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa/studenti-con-dsa#strumenti
Learning verification modality
The exam is an oral test consisting of a discussion interview on the topics discussed during the course and examined in-depth through recommended texts. The test aims at assuring the level of knowledge and understanding, as well as synthesis, achieved by the student. Moreover, this interview will verify that the student is able to communicate, with method, propriety of language and exposure, what he has acquired. The duration of the test varies depending on the performance of the test

For Erasmus student the exam is oral.

For student DSA see
https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa/studenti-con-dsa#strumenti.
Extended program
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.

Part II: Special 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. - 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. - 5. BPA, the discipline that studies the shape, size and distribution of traces of blood. Qualitative and quantitative BPA.
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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FORENSICS INVESTIGATIONS

Code A002863
Location PERUGIA
CFU 2
Teacher Mariangela Montagna
Learning activities Affine/integrativa
Area Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline IUS/16
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)

FORENSICS INVESTIGATIONS

Code A002863
Location PERUGIA
CFU 4
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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