Crime Detection
This Nuffield Working with Science unit featured experiments derived from forensic techniques but could only give the 'flavour' of a scientific investigation of a crime. The unit aimed to emphasise the basic needs, in a scientific investigation of evidence, of accurate observation, careful comparisons, and accurate recording and assessment of results.
Guidance for teachers and technicians appears in Teachers’ Notes D.
The unit was revised and republished for the CPVE edition of the project in the 1980s. Guidance for this version appears in the Tutors’ Handbook.
Contents
Section 1: Forensic science
Section 2: Fingerprints
Section 3: Stains
Section 4: Forgery
Section 5: Evidence at the scene of the crime
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Comments
Nice to see this again after so long. Note that we created a module from which there could be a choice of sections taken in any order (see Teachers Guide). The booklet was to be taken apart leaving each section of four pages on an A3 sheet. So the page order of the pdf appears odd (and might be fixed?) - section 1 is in the middle four pages and so on...
Paul