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What is a crime scene?What is forensic science?What tools and information are necessary for

criminologists to dissect a crime scene?

Sara Beth Honsinger

Eye-Witness ExerciseA Question of ReliabilityForensicsChemistryBiologyPhysical ScienceAdditional InformationSummary

Test your skills of observation…

Harvard experiment to test “inattentional blindness”

42% of participants noticed the gorillaUnreliable testimony results in overturned

verdictsFaultiness strengthens importance of forensic

science

Investigating of crimes using scientific meansEncompassing:

ChemistryBiologyPhysical Science

ChromatographySpectroscopic

analysispH and other

chemical testing

EntomologyAnthropologyDNA testing

Impression analysisBlood spatter

analysisBallistics

General ForensicsThe American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Information from the American Academy of Forensic Science

The Forensic Science Foundation Provides information on all the different branches of

forensic science

Forensic AnthropologyForensic Anthropology

Read an overview of forensic anthropology, and learn about various schools and training programs

Bodies and BonesThis online tutorial covers all aspects of forensic

anthropology, from at the crime scene to in the laboratory

Memories can be confused or

altered, evidence remains the same.