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Criminalistics and security technologies

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Course Unit Code060-0025/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
SOL009Ing. Kamil Soldán, Ph.D.
Summary
The student with the study of the subject in the first part called criminology, gets acquainted with the laws of origin, collection and use of traces and forensic evidence with a focus on developing methods, procedures, means and operations for successful detection, investigation and prevention of crime. Teaching is focused on the introduction to criminology (history, traces, identification), forensic techniques (individual fields such as mechanoscopy, dactyloscopy, forensic chemistry, forensic biology), forensic tactics (eg interrogation, recognition, reconstruction) and methodology of criminal investigation. acts (eg methodology for investigating murders, robberies, thefts). The next part of the course explains the technologies and techniques to effectively detect infringements.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The student will be able to apply, evaluate and organize information arising from the offense and find through knowledge of criminology appropriate solutions in assessing the acts presented to him and will be familiar with and will design and manipulate security technologies that use the forces of law and order.
Course Contents
1. Criminology, general division and definition. Characteristics related to forensic technology, methodology and tactics. Group and individual identification, traces and indications.
2. Forensic technology. Methods, division and characteristics of individual disciplines of forensic technology.
3. Forensic technology, dactyloscopy, trasology, odorology, ballistics, chemistry.
4. Forensic technology, biology, electrical engineering, pyrotechnics.
5. Forensic methodology of investigation, division, meaning and characteristics of individual types of forensic methodology.
6. Methodology of investigation of traffic accidents, investigation of extraordinary events, investigation of economic, property, violent and moral crime.
7. Forensic tactics. Division, meaning and characteristics of individual disciplines of criminal tactics, version, interrogation, reconstruction.
8. Forensic tactics, recognition, experiment, confrontation, crime scene and person inspection, search, tactical administrative preparation.
9. Means of capturing the current state of the crime scene and the object, the rules of searching the crime scene, the methods of security searches of objects and personal searches.
10. Technical road control, internal management act of the Police of the Czech Republic, instruction of the director of the directorate of the traffic police service No. 8/2019, search of the accident site, speed measurement, influence of addictive substances and technical parameters
11. Competitive intelligence.
12. Technology of detective and operational tactical activities.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Girard, James E.: Criminalistics, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 2017, ISBN: 9781284142617, 498 s.
Svoboda, I., Kol.,: Kriminalistika, KEY Publishing, Ostrava, 2016, ISBN 978-80-7418-259-4, 365 stran
Ščurek, R.: Biometrické metody identifikace osob v bezpečnostní praxi, VŠB-TU Ostrava – ediční středisko 840, katedra 040, 1. vydání, Ostrava, 2016, 58 stran, CD,
Ščurek, R.: Technika bezpečnostních služeb-skripta, VŠB-TU Ostrava, ediční středisko 840, katedra 040, 1. vydání, Ostrava, 2008, 97 stran, CD, ISBN 978-80-248-1733-0.
Ščurek, R., Holubová, V.: Bezpečnost transportu cenin před protiprávní činy-skripta, VŠB-TU Ostrava – ediční středisko 840, katedra 040, 1. vydání, Ostrava, 2008, 112 stran, CD, ISBN 978-80-248-1734-7
Svoboda, I., Kol.,: Kriminalistika, KEY Publishing, Ostrava, 2016, ISBN 978-80-7418-259-4, 365 stran
Girard, James E.: Criminalistics, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 2017, ISBN: 9781284142617, 498 s.
Ščurek, R.: Biometrické metody identifikace osob v bezpečnostní praxi, VŠB-TU Ostrava – ediční středisko 840, katedra 040, 1. vydání, Ostrava, 2016, 58 stran, CD,
Ščurek, R.: Technika bezpečnostních služeb-skripta, VŠB-TU Ostrava, ediční středisko 840, katedra 040, 1. vydání, Ostrava, 2008, 97 stran, CD, ISBN 978-80-248-1733-0.
Ščurek, R., Holubová, V.: Bezpečnost transportu cenin před protiprávní činy-skripta, VŠB-TU Ostrava – ediční středisko 840, katedra 040, 1. vydání, Ostrava, 2008, 112 stran, CD, ISBN 978-80-248-1734-7
Recommended Reading:
Saferstein, R.: Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science, 12th Edition, Forensic Science Consultant, 2018
Straus, J.: Kriminalistika, kriminalistická technika, PA ČR, 2004, Praha
Musil, J., Konrád, Z., Suchánek, J.: Kriminalistika. C.H.Beck, Praha 2001
Straus, J. a kol.: Úvod do kriminalistiky. Plzeň: Čeněk 2004, 175s.
Saferstein, R.: Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science, 12th Edition, Forensic Science Consultant, 2018
Straus, J.: Kriminalistika, kriminalistická technika, PA ČR, 2004, Praha
Musil, J., Konrád, Z., Suchánek, J.: Kriminalistika. C.H.Beck, Praha 2001
Straus, J. a kol.: Úvod do kriminalistiky. Plzeň: Čeněk 2004, 175s.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Other activities
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit30 10
        ExaminationExamination70 21