Introduction

Imagine you are called to investigate a bank robbery in your town.

This is the criminal's third bank to rob, and this time they shot the security guard on duty. You arrive to flashing lights, police tape, crowds of interested onlookers, and the media setting up cameras.

What should you do to ensure that the crime scene is properly documented, all evidence is identified, and everything is analyzed well enough to help catch the criminals that deserve to be behind bars?

In this lesson, you will learn exactly what to do!

evidence bag

Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...

  • Describe responsibilities of various personnel involved in crime scene investigations. Examples: police, detectives, laboratory specialists, medical examiners.
  • Explain techniques for searching, sketching, and recording data from a crime scene.

Enduring Understandings

  • Scientific inquiry utilizes the scientific method and inductive reasoning.
  • Forensic investigations involve various professional personnel and multiple scientific disciplines.
  • Forensic investigations are solved by using a methodical approach and certain protocol.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Forensic and Criminal Investigations standards: 1 and 5

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