(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
My essential question is "How can a Criminalist, ensure that test results are accurate and concise?". My answer 1 to this question is the quality assurance of the work performed of criminalists. My answer 2 is the prevention of cross contamination of evidence that is done within the evidence stream. My answer 3 is the acknowledgement and compliment of new technology that is being released to help improve the work of forensics. My best answer would have to be answer 2, the prevention of cross contamination of evidence done in the evidence stream. This is because cross contamination is mostly human error and although no one can be perfect, there is still a lot that can be done to minimize that factor and thus leading to a criminalist ensuring that test results are accurate and concise.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
My mentor actually talked to me about cross contamination and how it is a big deal within criminalistics. From that, I started to touch base on it and begin digging deeper into the research of it. In an interview with my mentor, she stated that cross contamination is a very important issue in the field of forensics, or criminalistics to be exact.
(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
My biggest problem was finding a mentor. For about the whole first semester of this school year, I could not find a mentor. I called about every forensic laboratory, sheriff department, coroner office and mortuary within Southern California. I finally resolved that problem by encountering forensicscienceacademy.org and called Terri Armenta where she gladly accepted to become my mentor for the remainder of the year.
My biggest problem was finding a mentor. For about the whole first semester of this school year, I could not find a mentor. I called about every forensic laboratory, sheriff department, coroner office and mortuary within Southern California. I finally resolved that problem by encountering forensicscienceacademy.org and called Terri Armenta where she gladly accepted to become my mentor for the remainder of the year.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
The two most significant sources I used to help me answer my essential question was, first, my mentor and second, the Innocenceproject.org. These sources have given me much more than just answer, but more knowledge that can positively affect me when giving my final presentation.
The two most significant sources I used to help me answer my essential question was, first, my mentor and second, the Innocenceproject.org. These sources have given me much more than just answer, but more knowledge that can positively affect me when giving my final presentation.
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