When a crime occurs, investigators are on the case. Using a careful scientific process, they study the clues, including fingerprint, ballistics, digital, and blood evidence. Follow along and see how these highly trained crime scene and forensics investigators analyse what's left behind to move cases forward.
Each book has a glossary, critical thinking questions and an index.
Ballistics
A shooting has occurred. Investigators have not yet found evidence. Then they look in a storm drain and find shell casings. They put the casings in a paper bag and send them to the lab to be analysed. Find out about the techniques and tools ballistics experts use to help bring even the toughest cases to a close.
Lexile:750L, GRL:Y, ATOS:4.3
Blood Evidence
A shooting has occurred. Investigators have not yet found evidence. Then they look in a storm drain and find shell casings. They put the casings in a paper bag and send them to the lab to be analysed. Find out about the techniques and tools ballistics experts use to help bring even the toughest cases to a close.
Lexile:700L, GRL:Z, ATOS:3.8
Fingerprint Evidence
A robbery has occurred. At first glance, it looks like nothing was left behind. But when fingerprint analysts arrive, they use a special light to find latent fingerprints. Find out about the techniques and tools fingerprint analysts use to help bring even the toughest cases to a close.
Lexile:790L, GRL:W, ATOS:4.4