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Question 1) needs to be 3-5 paragraphs with 2-3 refs

You have been dispatched to the scene of a homicide where a body was discovered in a field. The victim appears to have been shot several times and then burned. The identity of the deceased is in question, and the lead detective asks you whether DNA would be useful in this case to determine the identity of the deceased. 

1) What would you advise the detective? 

2) What type of DNA analysis is most useful on burned bodies? Is it useful in all cases in which there has been a badly burned body? 

3) Would you recover the DNA at the crime scene, or would you instead let the medical examiner recover the DNA evidence from the body? 

4) From what relative would a sample be taken from if a possible match were to be made? 

Question 2 2-3 paragraphs with 2-3 refs

Your supervisor informs you that each criminal justice agency in your community has to develop a new crime-fighting strategy for the coming fiscal year that must be based on a crime causation explanation to be presented to the city council for funding your department. Using the library and other available resources, prepare a brief summary of a policy linked to a theory that you would propose.

In your response, please address the following:

• The      purpose of the policy 
• The      theory guiding your policy 
• Anticipated      benefits 
• Benefits      and disadvantages of your policy 
• The      implementation plan