Upcoming Events
October 4, 2019
9:00AM – 4:30PM
Moot Court 6.68NB
Online registration for the 2019 Forensic Science Symposium will be open on August 1, 2019.
Early online registration $150 including breakfast and lunch will be ended on September 20, 2019.
Registration fee for John Jay students and colleagues will be $20 including breakfast and lunch.
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Shooting Reconstruction Workshop
Saturday October 5, 2019
8:30am – 4:45pm
Room 05.67NB
Online registration is open now until October 4, 2019. Space is limited.
Fee: $ 200
Please contact Shu-Yuan (Demi) Cheng if you have any question. shcheng@jjay.cuny.edu; 646-557-4637
Target audience: Criminalists, firearm examiners or crime scene responders involved in shooting reconstruction
Instructors: Dr. Peter Diaczuk and Detective Andrew J. Winter
Description:
Shooting reconstruction is a complex endeavor, requiring a thorough knowledge of bullets, firearms, and the physics of impact dynamics. This workshop will attempt to elucidate some of the situations encountered and offer solutions to questions that arise at shooting scenes, including ricochets, bullet deformation and trace evidence on bullets.
Several different types of ammunition will be discussed, along with their interactions with several different substrates commonly encountered. Attendees will also become familiar with evidence recognition, documentation, and recovery for laboratory analysis.
Agenda:
Module 1: “Basic firearm and ammunition nomenclature and operability”
Module 2: “Bullet ricochet”
Module 3: “Bullet interactions with substrates”
Module 4: “Determining bullet paths at the scene”
Module 5: “Practical exercises”
Station 1 --- Bullet ricochets
Station 2 --- Trace evidence on bullets
Station 3 --- Powder patterns on garments for distance determination
Station 4 --- Field test for bullet impact
Station 5 --- Rapid shear- bullet holes in synthetic garments
Station 6 --- Determining bullet paths
Module 6: Wrap-up and discussion. Certificates of Completion given to attendees
Past Events
Keep an eye out for additional announcements.
Place: Room Fifth Floor Seminar (5.67) - Unless Noted Differently
524 West 59th Street, New York, NY 1001s
Mr. Chris Peitsch of Cheaapeake Testing of Belcamp, MD "Laser Profilometry to!"
Mr. Mircea (Alex) Comanescu of .lohn Jay and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Dr. Richard Mendelsohn Rutqers University - "Vibrational" Spectroscopy, Microspectroscopy and
Ms. Ashley Morgan MS, "Recovery of Short Tandem Repeats form Cremated Remains"
Ms. Tiffany Millett of CUNY Graduate Center "Applications of Raman Spectroscopy and SERS to Forensic Samples"
Dr. Mechthild Prinz John Jay College and the Graduate Center CUNY
Post Mortem Imaging with CT Scan:
Advantages and Limitaions
April 16, 1:40 PM, Room 05.66.01 NB
Dr. Fabrice Dedouit, Service de Médicine Légale, Toulouse, France
RSVP: abrook@jjay.cuny.edu
Role of Pharmacogenetics in Forensic Toxicology
April 15, 1:40 PM, Room 05.66.01 NB
Dr, Gilles Tournel and Dr. Delphine Allorge, University of Lille, France
RSVP: abrooks@jjay.cuny.edu