Analyzing Crime Scenes

Analyzing Crime Scenes

Grade 11th Grade · Social Studies · 45 min

What's Included

Learning Objective

I can analyze a crime scene scenario to identify potential evidence and suspects.

Warm-Up Video

Professor Dave Explains · 11:54

Crime Scene Reconstruction

Guided Notes

3 key concepts

  • 1

    Crime scene reconstruction (CSR) involves determining the events that occurred during a crime using deductive and inductive reasoning, physical evidence, and scientific methods.

  • 2

    The three major pillars that form the foundation of CSR are reasoning, physical evidence, and scientific methods.

  • 3

    The stages of CSR include data collection, conjecture, hypothesis formulation, testing the hypothesis, and theory formulation.

Practice Questions

7 questions · Short answer

Exit Ticket

Quick comprehension check

At a crime scene, a broken window is found near a valuable painting that is now missing. A set of muddy footprints leads away from the window. List two pieces of potential evidence and one possible suspect based on this scenario.

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