New Perspectives

For blog number two I have been asked to access three other students’ blogs and explain how this informed any new perspectives.

I have taken great pleasure in reading almost every blog that has been submitted so far. I have come to realise that the contextual lens as seen by different individuals can be influenced by life experiences, personal upbringing and training. The blogs written about accidents by emergency service staff and volunteers give great detail on the lens of the emergency service worker. The blogs about incidents from a witness point of view give a great contextual lens on the victim/casualty and not necessarily the first responders. These are just a few examples.

This shows that not one individual can give the complete contextual lens of all parties involved and that working as a team or a group of people with different experience and backgrounds may be a more effective process.

 

The first blog that gave me a new perspective is a blog that I can no longer seem to locate. It was a blog about a Swift Water Rescue that went wrong when a child slipped from the rescuers grip/lifejacket. This blog was written by a rescuer who is also a parent. I remember the incident occurring and my thoughts were entirely about the rescuer. Being a rescuer myself and not a parent I guess it was the first thing I related too. I didn’t really take the time to think of this incident from the parent’s perspective. Reading this blog really made me think of the contextual lens of the other parties involved at a more detailed level then I would previously have.

If anyone can point me in the right direction of this blog and author that would be much appreciated. (EDIT: I have found the blog in question http://staceysrealworldinvestigation-stacey.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/hi-guys-i-have-never-attempted-blog.html )

 

The second blog that has given new perspective is "road accident 3 killed – personal blog by Julia Sims" http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/blog/index.php?entryid=473

Julia mentioned that the driver was found to have drugs in his system. I was sitting here thinking to my self how does this effect this persons contextual lens and how as a investigator can we determine this? This also lead me to question if drugs affect the lens then what about things like mental illness? This might cause us as investigators to come up with different versions of a persons lens based on normal state of mind and altered state of mind.

 

The next blog that Is Darren Carters blog on the Forklift accident involving a child. http://dalr66.wordpress.com/blog1-contextual-lens/

This blog focused on the contextual lens of a Child. Not having a child myself I sat there thinking how do children think, act and see the world at such a young age. I tried thinking of a incident that involved a child. I tried to write contextual lens for the child but I found it difficult. I have come to realise as an investigator this is something that I will have to come to try and understand to fully investigate incidents involving children.