crime scene photography

Jonathan DorrietyAdjunct ProfessorKaplan University

School of Criminal Justice

Unit 1 Seminar

Course Instructor

◦Jonathan Dorriety, M.S.C.J.

◦Please call me “Jon”

Teaching @ Kaplan since 2004

Law enforcement for 28 years (Retired)◦ PPCT Defensive Tactics Instructor,

Photographer, Crisis Negotiator, Firearms

Instructor, K-9 Trainer & Handler among other

things.

My email address is: jdorriety@kaplan.edu. Office hours are Sundays 3:00pm –

5:00pm ET. (2pm – 4pm Central Time) I use the Google ™ Chat feature.

Phone conferences can also be accommodated.

In an emergency my cell is (205) 764-3310 (Afternoons and Evenings)

If something comes up that prevents you from completing an assignment on time or you need extra time…contact me!

Majority of seminar tonight will be used to cover class expectations for all assignment groups:◦Discussion board◦Seminars◦Assignments/Projects

Tonight’s goal: You should leave seminar knowing EXACTLY what is expected and required for an “A”

This course will cover topics in Crime Scene Photography

There are numerous written assignments throughout the course

This is an upper level course (300) and your participation and work is expected to be at a higher level

I except more from you than I would students in a 100 or 200 level course

You are not in high school anymore…you are in college.

Discussion Boards (the heart of learning within our course) You should read every post and response, especiallyespecially my postsmy posts

Seminars Quizzes Projects & Learning Activities (taking

photos) Essays & Papers It is a lot of work and you must MAKE time

to get it done if you are to succeed. Time management is crucial.

In order to receive credit for the discussion boards (DB) you must post an initial response to the question (100 word range).

A substantial response to at least one other classmate per question for a good grade; a response to two students for a better grade.

The DB rubric (grading guidelines) are in the syllabus. Be sure to look it over carefully.

Multiple DB questions each week (2)

We meet each Thursday at 8pm ET Make up work for missed Seminars means

an essay 300-500 words on the topic of the seminar unless I post an alternative assignment. (Essay is always accepted)

Conduct during seminars ◦ Stay on topicStay on topic◦ Avoid side chatter in main chat areaAvoid side chatter in main chat area◦ Use Private messaging if necessaryUse Private messaging if necessary◦ Participate! – Don’t just sign on say “hello” Participate! – Don’t just sign on say “hello”

and then sit there or go watch TV = bad and then sit there or go watch TV = bad grade.grade.

Seminar Grading Rubrics Maximum Points Grading Criteria 50% Content: Posts are on topic and contributes to the quality of the seminar

25% Participation: Frequent interaction on concepts being discussed by students and instructor

25% Attendance: Student arrives on time and stays the entire seminar

If for some reason I am not here when seminar should begin, please call my cell phone (205) 764-3310.

If I do not answer, contact the Academic Chair, Linda Cook at lcook@kaplan.edu and advise her of the situation. Please do not call Tech Support. They have their hands full as it is.

If I know ahead of time that something will prevent me from being at seminar, such as bad weather, I will email everyone.

All Projects, Mid-Term, and Final Essays must have a proper title page so I can identify your the work.

When submitting work please save as Name Unit Project # in Microsoft Word

It can be in Word 97-2003, 2007 or 2010

Late Assignments

No paper will be accepted three weeks after the due date!!

Emergencies and other unforeseen issues will happen; this is different than

laziness.

Notify me immediately when this occurs!! Keep me informed is all I ask.

I do not want to see this happen!!!!

1. Late and rushed work becomes sloppy sometime plagiarized. (Copying and

pasting from Internet sources.)2. Budget your time. It is difficult with a family and full time work schedule, but it can be done. I know because I’ve been

there. I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees while working.

3. Each one of you chose to enroll here at Kaplan and took the first step toward

furthering your education.

When you begin to write an essay or paper it should start with what you already know and that is where you should begin to write.

We cite to:◦ Show our argument is grounded in the field◦ Help our readers find additional material

on the topic◦ Establish credibility◦ You may be able to write the entire paper

without referencing anyone else, but that is not academics

In academics we support what we say with other people in the field saying the same thing.

So, then you go and find reference material, such as your text or articles, paraphrase or put into you own words what they said and cite the source.

This backs up what you said in your paper.

See how this works?

The key to using other sources is to rewrite them in your voice and not to copy and paste from the Internet or a book.

Here is an example from your textbook. “Different lenses may make the scene

viewed in the viewfinder appear to be different than the eye sees the scene. A 50mm lens is considered to be the ‘normal’ lens for a 35mm SLR film camera because it portrays a scene in a similar way as the eye saw it” (Robinson, 2010, pp. 169-170).

Here is the same text in my words. There are a variety of lens types and focal

lengths on the market, each one producing differences in the way the photographer sees the image through the camera. A 50mm lens is used as the “normal” lens since it produces little to no variation from the manner the human eye perceives the image (Robinson, 2010).

Reference Robinson, E.M. (2010). Crime scene photography

(2nd ed.). Boston: Academic Press.

My pet peeve …Big time! Before we discuss that let’s talk about

writing and this includes the discussion boards.

You may have a project that does not require any citations because you are relating results from something you did (Unit 4 Project)

You will have essays and papers that will require citation of sources.

So the question is why do you cite sources? We cite to support what we say with other

people in the field saying the same thing.

Quilting together a paper from multiple web sources (often copying and pasting sentences) without citation is plagiarism.

Putting the references on your references page isn't enough

Changing a couple of words in a passage is not adequate paraphrasing and even with a citation it's plagiarism.

Papers consisting of nothing, but quotes even if cited perfectly and placed in quotation marks is plagiarism.

Plagiarism does not have to be intentional.

Information that is not considered “common knowledge” by the general public.

Just because it is in a textbook doesn’t make it common knowledge; in fact that usually means it is not.

When in doubt, cite the source of the information.

Whatever you do, do not copy anything and just submit it on a paper or the discussion board.

I used Kaplan’s third party examiner Turnitin.com before I even look at your paper

Turnitin.com checks the paper against search engines, Internet, electronic databases (e.g. ProQuest), and every paper ever submitted to Turnitin.com

It then returns a “similarity index” score of how similar your paper is to these sources that have been checked.

I see something like this

If your paper shows up with high “similarity index score” I will examine it closer.

Sometimes the score may be high because of too much quoting.

So, that is why you have to careful about that as well.

Quotes should take up no more than ten (10) ten (10) percentpercent of the entire paper.

Be sure you make a note of this! Plagiarism occurs most when a student is

behind and rushes to catch up by taking short cuts.

If you ever have doubt about what should be cited or how something should be cited and you can’t find the answer contact me.

There are some good resources in Doc Sharing …Use them!

I like to see APA format, but I know everyone may not be that familiar with it. The main thing is to cite your sources and NOT just a lists of hyperlinks, like this…

References www.crime-scene-investigator.net/csi-photo.html http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/video.html http://www.iowaiai.org/

footwear_impression_photography.html

References www.crime-scene-investigator.net/csi-photo.html http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/video.html http://www.iowaiai.org/

footwear_impression_photography.html I get references pages like this all the time. This is the correct way. Author, year, title,

Retrieved from URL (Not a homepage, but the exact link to the article.)

Kramer, R.E. (2008). Footwear impression photography. Retrieved from http://www.iowaiai.org/footwear_impression_photography.html

Even if you don’t have an APA manual there are plenty of websites dedicated to explaining APA format. This is a good one http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

The Kaplan Writing Center also has some helpful resources. Use them!

A glimpse at early case law regarding photography.

Photography Basics Photography Equipment Crime Scene Photographer’s

Responsibilities

Specific types of photography◦Crime scene◦Vehicle accidents◦Aerial◦Surveillance

Digital versus FilmCurrent Case law concerning

photographic evidence

Luco v. U.S., 64 U.S. 515 (1859) First case in U.S. where photographs were

introduced as evidence in court.

Luco v. U.S., 64 U.S. 515 (1859) First case in U.S. where photographs were

introduced as evidence in court. Photographs of documents involved in a land

dispute. The court used some funny language in this

case.

Luco v. U.S., 64 U.S. 515 (1859) First case in U.S. where photographs were

introduced as evidence in court. Photographs of documents involved in a land

dispute. The court used some funny language in this

case. “oculis subjecta fidelibus”

Luco v. U.S., 64 U.S. 515 (1859) First case in U.S. where photographs were

introduced as evidence in court. Photographs of documents involved in a land

dispute. The court used some funny language in this

case. “oculis subjecta fidelibus” “Before one’s eyes” or seeing is believing. Court ruled (based on photographs) the

signatures were forgeries.

Marcy v. Bates, 82 Mass. (16 Gray) 161 (1860) Introduced enlarged photographs Laying the groundwork for current cases

where enlargements are needed. Most all photographs are enlarged for court

presentation.

Udderzook v. Commonwealth, 76 Pa. 340 (1874)

Leading criminal case “There seems to be no reason why a

photograph, proved to be taken from life and to resemble the person photographed, should not fill the same measure of evidence.”

Luco v. U.S., 64 U.S. 515 (1859). Retrieved from http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/64/515/case.html

Legal Photography. Retrieved from http://www.quincy.ca/timelines/t_legalphoto.html

Robinson, E. M. (2010). Crime scene photography (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Academic Press.

Thanks for attending!

Have a great evening!