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The case study - the scene

The case study - the scene

What we see here is close to what happened in the real-life incident that our case is based on.

It should appear a little chaotic – real crime scenes are like that, and potentially critical decisions have to be made with little or no knowledge of what took place to create the crime scene. We ask you to do two things here: on the basis of what you have seen, write down what you think happened; and reflect on what the video shows as we move on to the presentation of the basic principles of crime scene examination – how were they applied and does the case video convey how important yet complex it is to deal with these?

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Introduction to Forensic Science

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