Crime+Scene+Technician

==**﻿ Damaris Gonzalez Crime Scene Investigator Job Research** ==

**Description**:
enforcement agency responsible for the investigation of the crime. 
 * This position is responsible for complex crime scene investigating. The Crime Scene Investigator evaluates the scene of a crime.
 * They prepare detailed reports on the observations and activities at the scene for the law
 * They photograph, diagram, and document the crime scene and collect and preserve evidence.

Salary:
and experience.
 * A median annual wages for crime scene investigator is $60,910 a yr
 * The highest salary reported was more than $90,870
 * Your salary depends on the location of your job, your education level and the level of training

Schooling Required:
to practice. be even better.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">﻿You will need to get a 2 year associate's degree from a community college or forensic school
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">The more schooling you get the better options you will have. So a 4 year bachelors degree would

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Location for Career:

 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Theres not really a specific location where this career path would be good at because crimes happen everywhere.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Colleges that offer the degree for this career:

 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Everest University
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Florida Tech University
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Keiser University
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">John Jay College of Criminal Justice

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">My Interest in this Career:

 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">This career really catches my attention. I never wanted to have a boring job and in this job something new could happen everyday. It really makes you think out of the box.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Interview:

 * 1) **Name of person you are interviewing**: Terry Carter
 * 2) **What profession is the person in**: Crime Scene Investigation
 * 3) **Do they like their job**: Yes, i love it
 * 4) **Positives about their job**: Its something different everyday, and you have so much freedom.
 * 5) **Negatives of the job:** The hours, when your on call on nights a weekend you never know when they are going to call you. They've called me in the middle of my sons birthday party. Also when your out doing a homicide case you could be out for 2-3 days.
 * 6) **What are their job roles and title**: I am the senior crime scene investigator, and i specialize in latent print examination.
 * 7) **Out of the college/training that you had to go through, what was the most useful and what was the least useful skills/classes that you were required to accomplish?**: The most useful was advance crime scene processing. The least useful was the photography class because we learned about a certain camera and when we were out on the field we used a whole different camera that automatically did what we had to learn how to do.
 * 8) **How much do you make a week? A year?**: Range is 33,000 and the top is 55,000.
 * 9) **Do you find it easy or hard to live off your salary?**: Easy
 * 10) **Are you required to continue training/progressing in your education to remain competitive and capable to do your job? If so, what sort of continual training is required?**: Yes, the technology is constantly advancing. So every year we require are forensic scientist to take a class to update them.
 * 11) **Do you find your field in high demand (competitive), not enough well qualified persons, or are their too many people within your field?**: no, there could only be one position open and there are 200 candidates applying for the job.
 * 12) **If you could go back to college and re-do your career choice, would you?Why?**: I love my career but if i had to do it again i would want to become a nurse just because they are paid so good.
 * 13) **How many cases do you get a week?**: i could get an average of 5 cases a week, and be working all of them.
 * 14) **Do the dead bodies ever creep you out?**: at first they did, but you really get use to it. you have to have a strong mind set.
 * 15) **What was your first case?**: My first case was a "decomp" which is a body thats been dead for a while. it was a natural death but he was in his house with no air conditioning for 8 days.



<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Work Cited:

 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">CrimeSceneTechnician.www.certforensictechnician.com/crime-scene-technician.php.2 March 2011
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Courseadvisor.www.courseadvisor.com/browse/areas/criminal-justice-legal-degrees/crime-scene-investigator/. 2 March 2011
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">TheCrimeSceneInvestigator.Hayden B. Baldwin.www.feinc.net/csi.htm. 3 March 2011
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Crime Scene Investigation. Richard M. Rau, Ph.D []. 10 March 2011