Criminalistics and Forensic DNA

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students should be able to:

• demonstrate a basic understanding of several areas of technical forensic research;
• formulate hypotheses and research questions in a logically correct manner (Bayes Theorem) for criminalistic investigations;
• recognise the correctness of research questions, bias risks, evaluation possibilities, explanations and assumptions; 
• express the value of conclusions and the validity of theories based on research findings of forensic areas of expertise; 
• recognise prosecutors and defence fallacies in interpreting forensic results;
• distinguish between the source level and activity level of forensic trace evidence;
• formulate the difference in evidential value of macro and micro traces;
• explain the essentials of forensic DNA research and evaluation of DNA fingerprint comparison; 
• recognise the value of reference databases for comparison of research results;
• recognise the value of databases for judicial experts in various areas of law.