WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY-PHILIPPINES

CUSMAN CAMPUS
Mabini Ext. Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija
COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATION
S.Y 2020-2021

COURSE TITLE: CDI 3. SPECIALIZED CRIME

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course covers the special study of modern technique in the investigation of crimes
involving crimes against persons, property, chastity, and other related offenses.
Likewise, it focuses with the application of medical science in crime investigation with emphasis on
Human Anatomy and Physiology, the medico-legal aspects of physical injuries, death crimes, abortion,
infanticide, paternity and filiations, impotency, sterility, and poisoning.

MODE OF
SCHEDULES TOPICS REFERENCES
DELIVERY

WEEK 1-2 1. Concepts and nature SYNCHRONOUS https://futurerc.blogspot.com/2017/02/cdi-3-special-

of special crime AND crime-investigation_28.html
ASYNCHRONOUS
investigation
particularly in https://www.unodc.org/e4j/en/organized-
transnational and crime/module-8/key-issues/investigators-of-organized-
organized crime. crime.html
2. Principles and
concepts of human
rights and victim
welfare.
A. LEGAL
SAFEGUARDS OF
PERSON UNDER
CUSTODIAL
INVESTIGATION:
a. Art 3 bill of rights
under 1987 Phil
Constitution
b. R.A. 7438 – Rights of
the arrested, detained,
and person under
custodial investigation
c. Miranda Warning
d. Amendment Rights

B. THE EVOLUTION
OF CUSTODIAL
RIGHTS:
1. Miranda v. Texas
Arizona
2. Brown v. Mississippi
3. Escobedo v. Illinois
4. Terry doctrine
5. Daubert case
 6. Frye Case
C. SCENE OF THE
CRIME OPERATION
(SOCO)
a. Mission
b. General
Objectives
c. Classification of
Cases for Crime
Lab. Assistance
d. Mandatory PNP CRIME LAB
WEEK 3-4 ASYNCHRONOUS
Requirements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fftk8-jjTdY
for:
e. Powers and
Functions of the
SOCO
f. SOCO
Personnel
g. Composition of
h. SOCO Team

D. CRIME SCENE
RESPONSE
PROCEDURE
a. Duties of the first
responder
b. Duties of the
investigator-on-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgzdhUAJrBA
case
INTRODUCTION OF CRIME SCENE
c. General SOCO
WEEK 5-6 SYNCHRONOUS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqCQ2HpNffE
Procedures
CRIME SCENE UNIT
d. Duties of the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqGrlcDKWKA
Territorial Police
TRACING UNIT
Unit
e. Policy Guidelines
on Processing of
Person Present at
the Crime Scene

WEEK 7-8 E. KINDS OF DEATH SYNCHRONOUS https://kailashkhatri.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/legal

AND COMMON -medicine-solis.pdf
SIGNS OF DEATH LEGAL MEDICINE BOOK BY PEDRO SOLIS
I. Kinds
a. Somatic Death
b. Molecular Death
c. Suspended
Animation

II. Common Signs

a. Cooling of the
Body/ Algor
Mortis
b. Insensibility of
body and loss of
powers to move
 c. Cessation of
heart action and
circulation
d. Cessation of
respiration
e. Changes in the
eye
f. Changes in the
skin
g. Non-reaction of
the skin to heat

F. VISIBLE
CHANGES IN THE
BODY AFTER
DEATH
I. Changes in the
muscle
Stages;
1. primary
flaccidity
2. post-mortem
rigidity or cadaveric
spasm
a. heat stiffening
b. cold stiffening
c. cadaveric spasm
or instantaneous rigor
d. importance of
cadaveric
spasm
3. State of https://kailashkhatri.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/legal
WEEK 9-10 secondary flaccidity or ASYNCHRONOUS -medicine-solis.pdf
secondary relaxation LEGAL MEDICINE BOOK BY PEDRO SOLIS

II. Changes in Blood

1. Coagulation of
the blood

2. Post-mortem
lividity/ Livor mortis/
Post-mortem hypostatic

STAGES OF POST-
MORTEM LIVIDITY
a. hypostasis lividity
b. diffusion lividity
c. difference of ante
and post mortem clot
d. distinction
between contusion and
post mortem lividity

WEEK 11-12 PUTREFACTION OF SYNCHRONOUS https://kailashkhatri.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/legal

THE BODY -medicine-solis.pdf
 I. Changes in
putrefaction
a. changes in the
color of the tissue
b. evolution of the
gasses in the tissue

MODIFICATION OF
PUTREFACTION
I. Basic Concepts
a. Mummification
b. Saponification
c. Maceration

II. Estimating the

time of death
a. Presence of
rigor mortis
b. Presence Of
post-mortem
lividity
c. Onset
decomposition
d. Stage of
decomposition
LEGAL MEDICINE BOOK BY PEDRO SOLIS
e. Entomology of
the cadaver
f. Stage of
digestion of
food in the
stomach
g. Presence of live
fleas in
drowning cases
h. Amount of
urine in the
bladder
i. State of clothing
j. Chemical
changes in the
cerebro-spinal
fluid
k. Post mortem
clotting
l. Presence or
absence of soft
tissues in
skeletal remains
m. M. Conditions
of the bone
WEEK 13- 14 SPECIAL ASYNCHRONOUS
APPROACHES AND
TECHNIQUES IN
THE
INVESTIGATION OF
 SPECIAL CASES
INVOLVING
PERSONS,
PROPERTIES
1. Crimes against
Persons
a. Parricide
b. Death or Physical
Injuries Inflicted Under
Exceptional
Circumstances
c. Murder
d. Homicide
e. Death Caused in
a Tumultuous Affray
f. Physical injuries
inflicted in a tumultuous
affray
g. Serious, Less
Serious, Slight Physical
injuries, and Mutilation
h. Rape

SPECIAL
APPROACHES AND
TECHNIQUES IN
THE
INVESTIGATION OF
SPECIAL CASES
INVOLVING
PERSONS,
PROPERTIES
1. Crimes against
Property
a. Robbery
b. Theft
WEEK 15-16 c. Estafa ASYNCHRONOUS
2. Crimes against
Chastity
a. Adultery and
Concubinage
b. Acts of
Lasciviousnes
s
c. Seduction
d. Abduction
3. Violence Against
Women and their
Children

WEEK 17-18 RA 9208 An Act to ASYNCHRONOUS

institute policies to
eliminate trafficking-
in-persons especially
woman and children.
RA10364 otherwise
known as Anti-
trafficking in persons
act of 2003

Different transnational
and organized crime.

Interview and
Interrogation of
transnational and
organized crime group
members

a. Methods and
techniques in
conducting interview
and interrogation of
transnational and
organized crime
syndicates

STATUTES AND
ORDERS RELATED
TO ORGANIZED
CRIME AND
TERRORISM IN
THE PHILIPPINES
 RA 9272 -
Human Security
Act of 2007
 RA10591- Act
Providing for a
comprehensive
law on Firearms
and
Ammunitions
and Providing
penalties for
violations thereof
Other pertinent laws
related to organized
and transnational
crime