Crime Scene Detective
Carey Scott
- Reading
- Try one case at a time, inviting the reader to explain each inference before checking the answer. Pause over evidence collection and discuss what information remains uncertain.
- Themes
- Forensic reasoning: Readers are introduced to ways investigators collect and interpret evidence while working through crime-scene activities. The book presents forensic science as a practical way to investigate crime, with readers asked to connect clues and suspects.
- Crime and culpability: Four crime scenes ask readers to examine evidence and work towards identifying a culprit. The incidents provide scenarios for investigation, but their moral framing and emotional treatment cannot be determined.
- Worth knowing
- The cases include robbery, arson, forgery and murder.