Blog 3 - First Interview Preparation

Sadly I will not be interviewing these two fictional detectives. However some of the questions I have brewing should make for an interesting discussion with the individual I am interviewing.

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  Why?

• For my interview, I plan to interview a parent of one of the IPoly students. I am currently in the process of contacting this student in hopes her father would allow me to interview him. I do not know much about this individual, however I do know that he is a Detective that works very closely with Crime Scene Investigators. I know however that this individual is a perfect candidate for my first interview because he can give me a big picture kind of perspective. This is useful because I haven't narrowed down what my essential question is going to be. So what he offers is his perspective from a subject that goes hand in hand with mine.Also because this Detective works with numerous Crime Scene Investigators I should have no trouble networking outside my mentorship to gain additional information.

2.  Five questions will be assigned to all seniors to ask.  What additional questions do you plan to ask? 

• For my first interview I plan to get the most information out of it that I can. As I gain more background information on the individual I am interviewing by contacting him I will compile more questions. For now I know I want to go in the general direction of asking questions that pertain to the legal side of Crime Scene Investigation (i.e. solving the case), since he is a Detective he should be very knowledgable of this. This would include topics such as chain of custody, jurisdiction, and anything that involves qualities or methods CSI's do to better help solve cases. An example of a question would be something along the lines of, " It is to my understanding that evidence get handled by numerous people along the chain of custody. Do you find that when more people come into contact with a piece of evidence it hinders its accountability in court? Or by having so many eyes examine the evidence it gives you a fresh perspective on how to approach the case?" So the reason I am asking these types of legal questions is that I am considering  taking my topic in the direction of what is the best way for a crime scene investigator to prepare for court? By asking these questions I can gain insight on Detective-CSI interaction and different ways that help a CSI prepare for court.