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Sharon Plotkin, MS, CCSISpecialties Bloodstain Reconstruction Crime Scene Investigations Crime Scene Photography Crime Scene Reconstruction Fingerprinting Techniques TFT Courses Taught Advanced Fluorescent Fingerprint Processing & Photography Bloodstain Pattern Recognition Crime Scene Investigations Workshop Crime Scene Search Principles & Patterns webinar Detection, Enhancement, & Documentation of Blood Evidence Discovering Trace Evidence Enhancing & Detecting Blood Evidence on Crime Scenes Fundamentals of Crime Scene Photography Modern Fingerprint Development & Documentation |
About Sharon Plotkin
Sharon has been a certified crime scene investigator since 2006 with the International Association for Identification and spent almost 21 years doing crime scene work in North Miami, Florida where she investigated thousands of cases ranging from burglaries to homicides and suspicious death cases.
Sharon has been teaching in higher education since 2003 and is currently full-time faculty at Miami Dade College in Crime Scene Technology since 2016.
Sharon obtained her Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Florida International University. Sharon received her doctoral degree in Education specializing in Curriculum and Teaching from Northcentral University in 2022. She is a member of several forensic organizations including the International Association for Identification, International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts and Goldcoast Forensics. She is a fellow with the American Academy of Forensic Science.
Sharon has received specialized training in various fields of crime scene investigations, including, bloodstain reconstruction, photography, crime scene reconstruction, fingerprinting, shoe wear casting and other various topics. She has traveled throughout the United States, Taiwan and the Caribbean attending and teaching at crime scene conferences that included experts such as Dr. Henry Lee, Dr. Michael Baden, Dr. Vincent DiMaio, Vernon Geberth, Dr. Bill Bass, Paul Kish, Richard Saferstein and other highly notable crime scene experts.
Sharon published a crime scene reconstruction textbook with author Robert Ogle Jr. and her second textbook in Fingerprinting was released in May 2021. She is working on a manuscript for a third textbook in crime scene safety.
Sharon has been a certified crime scene investigator since 2006 with the International Association for Identification and spent almost 21 years doing crime scene work in North Miami, Florida where she investigated thousands of cases ranging from burglaries to homicides and suspicious death cases.
Sharon has been teaching in higher education since 2003 and is currently full-time faculty at Miami Dade College in Crime Scene Technology since 2016.
Sharon obtained her Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Florida International University. Sharon received her doctoral degree in Education specializing in Curriculum and Teaching from Northcentral University in 2022. She is a member of several forensic organizations including the International Association for Identification, International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts and Goldcoast Forensics. She is a fellow with the American Academy of Forensic Science.
Sharon has received specialized training in various fields of crime scene investigations, including, bloodstain reconstruction, photography, crime scene reconstruction, fingerprinting, shoe wear casting and other various topics. She has traveled throughout the United States, Taiwan and the Caribbean attending and teaching at crime scene conferences that included experts such as Dr. Henry Lee, Dr. Michael Baden, Dr. Vincent DiMaio, Vernon Geberth, Dr. Bill Bass, Paul Kish, Richard Saferstein and other highly notable crime scene experts.
Sharon published a crime scene reconstruction textbook with author Robert Ogle Jr. and her second textbook in Fingerprinting was released in May 2021. She is working on a manuscript for a third textbook in crime scene safety.