ENY 6706
CREDITS: 3
Forensic scientists, crime scene technicians, and medicolegal death investigators are continually faced with establishing a postmortem interval (or time since death) in medicolegal investigations. Students will learn the proper evidence techniques for the documentation, collection, and preservation of entomological evidence as well as how to calculate a minimum postmortem interval from entomological evidence.
Topics:
| Module | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to forensic entomology |
| Week 2 | Entomology and the law |
| Week 3 | Arthropod biology and taxonomy |
| Week 4 | Insect morphology and development |
| Week 5 | Insect systematics pt 1 |
| Week 6 | Insect systematics pt 2 |
| Week 7 | Flies of forensic importance pt 1 |
| Week 8 | Flies of forensic importance pt 2 |
| Week 9 | Identification of adult insects |
| Week 10 | Identification of immature insects |
| Week 11 | Temperature, development and succession |
| Week 12 | Factors influencing succession |
| Week 13 | The entomologist at the crime scene |
| Week 14 | TOC calculation |
| Week 15 | The entomology report |
Text
Textbook is not required. Readings will be assigned from library holdings.