Coroner and Medical Examiner, law homework help

Base Key Outline:

KEY OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION

• Crime Scene Investigator
  • Works with Law Enforcement
  • Isolates and secures crime scene
  • Assist law enforcement establish a restricted perimeter
  • Preserve, collect, and record impressions
  • Collects DNA evidence
• Coroner
  • Elected for position
  • Initiate investigations at crime scenes determining cause of death
  • Oversee collection of physical, scientific, and pathological evidence
  • Receive and study death reports
• Ways of determining death
  • Livor Mortis – One thing you don’t see at a crime
  • Rigor Mortis – Stiffening of body muscles
  • Algor Mortis – Helps determine the time of death
  • Basic Decomposition – Decomposing of body

4. Challenges

To ensure proper steps and measures are utilized at the scene of a death, ensuring one’s family if it was natural, suicide or homicide

• Conclusion
• References

• Recapitulate the key facts of paper and reiterate the essay in different words.
• Make a good and robust concluding account.

Assignment:

There is a difference between a crime scene investigator and a coroner’s investigator. There is also a difference between a coroner and a medical examiner. There are 3 ways to determine the time of death:

• Livor mortis
• Rigor mortis
• Algor mortis

Assignment Guidelines

• First, revise your Unit 4 Outline according to instructor feedback and peer review.
• Next, using the outline as a base, address the following questions, and add your responses to your Assignment final draft:
  • What restrictions apply to a crime scene investigator with regard to a body within the crime scene? Explain.
  • What is the role of a coroner’s investigator? Explain.
  • What is a coroner? Explain.
  • What is a medical examiner? Explain.
  • What is the difference between livor mortis, rigor mortis, and algor mortis?
  • Do you believe that every jurisdiction should have a coroner or a medical examiner? Why or why not?