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Illicit Drugs

Stupéfiants II

Responsible Faculty: School of Criminal Justice (ESC)

Teacher(s): Pierre Esseiva
Lecturer(s): -

Validity: 2009 -> 2011

No timetable defined.

Course

Autumn semester
3 hours per week
42 hours per semester

Teaching language(s): French
Public: No
Credits: 0

Objective

Knowledge and comprehension
Thorough Knowledge of the main illicit drugs (history, political context, geopolitics, chemistry)
Knowledge of the analytical method allowing the extraction of a chemical signature.
Knowledge of the multivariate statistical methods for comparing drugs samples.
Comprehension of the context in which the chemical profile are used (in a investigative, strategic or judicial perspective).
Comprehension of the different level of information convey by the chemical/physical links.
Intellectual ability
Discuss the profiling process
Ability to carry out a profiling methodology fit for the type of illicit drugs as well as the context.

Content

Detailed study of the main illicit drugs (heroin, cocaine, cannabis, ATS, GHB, LSD).
Chemistry of these substances (synthesis and extraction aspects) including the study of the different analytical method use for extraction a chemical profile.
Detection of microtrace of illicit drugs. Presentation of topics related to the analysis of contaminated banknotes, utilisation of ION-SCAN).
Introduction to statistical data treatment of the analytical methods in order to compared specimen of illicit drugs. Implementation of this methodology in dedicated database.

Bibliography

O. Guéniat, P. Esseiva, Le profilage de l'héroïne et de la cocaïne. Une méthodologie moderne de lutte contre le trafic illicite, Presse Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 2005.
P. Esseiva, P. Margot, Drug profiling, in: A. Jamieson, A. Moenssens (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK, 2009, pp. 852-859.
P. Esseiva, S. Ioset, F. Anglada, L. Gasté, O. Ribaux, P. Margot, A. Gallusser, A. Biedermann, Y. Specht and E. Ottinger, Forensic drug intelligence: An important tool in law enforcement, Forensic Sci. Int. 167 (2007) 247-254.

Programme requirements

None

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