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Describe a few ethical issues when investigating death scenes and explain how violating these can impact an investigation.

A few ethical issues would be creating or planting evidence, lying in reports, and unprofessionalism. These are just some of the potential ethical issues that can occur when investigating a death scene. These can impact the investigation severely. In the code of ethics, it gives 16 different roles that need to be followed when investigating a death scene. One must be able to remove themselves from an investigation due to personal, financial, employment related, or conflicts of interest as this can lead to unprofessionalism and one being biased in the case (Science, 2021). If the investigator cannot follow the code of ethics, they need to go through further training or possibly be shadowed until they can be trust investigating alone.

2. Identify and explain some of the job-related stressors faced by medicolegal death investigators and homicide detectives, and further explain some of the most common warning signs of stress and what some appropriate coping mechanisms would be.

When it comes to job related stressors, one thing is management of authority, gruesome related accident, or a traumatic experience (CriminalJusticeSchoolInfo,2021). These are all related stressors faced by medicolwegal death investigators and homicide detectives. These stressors can happen with a lot to little experience on the job. Some of the warning signs would be one acting unusual or erratic, freaking out or getting startled when loud sounds go off, and flashbacks when seeing a certain object. It is important for one to seek the professional help when necessary. This can easily effect ones job so getting help is important and learning coping mechanisms to help them continue their duties of their job.

3. Select and describe at least three of the most important things you believe are required for a death investigator to successfully provide expert testimony to a Court.