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Assessment Objective Two Lesson Two Tasks - Experiments

Aims and Objectives
Analyse a range of different research methods

What is the Forensic Science Service? The Forensic Science Service is a leading provider of analysis and interpretation of evidence from crime scenes. They provide a comprehensive service, from crime scene to court room, and analyse more than 120,000 cases each year.

1. What is the website address? http://www.forensic.gov.uk/html/ 2. Which UK organisations do the FSS provide services for? a. b. c. d. police forces HMRC British Transport Police CPS

e. commercial organisations

3. Complete the following sentances:

1,300 scientists are involved annually with:

More than 120,000 cases. Attendance at over 1,500 crime scenes. Processing just under 500,000 DNA samples. Providing evidence in court on more than 2,000 occasions

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4. List 8 services that the FSS provide: a. DNA b. Hair c. Blood d. Finger print e. footwear f. Sexual Offence Service g. Fibres h. Glass And Paint 5. What was significant about the Colin Pitchfork conviction? British criminal, the first convicted of murder based on DNA fingerprinting evidence, and the first to be caught as a result of mass DNA screening. Pitchfork raped and murdered two girls, the first in Narborough, Leicestershire, in November 1983, and the second in Enderby, also in Leicestershire, in July 1986. He was arrested on 19 September 1987, and sentenced to life imprisonment on 22 January 1988, after admitting both murders.

6. Choose one other case study and summarise. Case: Child Abuse case studies Summary: Emma was 14 when she met her first 'boyfriend'. He in his 30s bought her presents, picked her up in his car, told her he loved her. But he soon changed. He became violent and before long was forcing her to have sex with his friends. She was treated like a toy, Emma was passed on, shipped around the country and raped by countless men. She said. "I was never given any names and I don't remember their faces."

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