Become a CSI Investigator: Free Classes at DC's Crime Museum October 19, 2008

Starting in October, the National Museum of Crime and Punishment will offer free classes to museum patrons on the practices and techniques of CSI investigators. Patrons will have the opportunity to learn about using dental records to identify victims, fingerprinting, evidence collection, and DNA interpretation. All classes will take place in the mock-CSI lab inside the museum, taught by graduate students from George Washington University Masters Program for Crime Scene Investigation. This first workshop will discuss Impression Evidence, which includes fingerprints, footprints, and dental imprints. Inside the museum, leaders will create a fictional crime scenario, briefing participants on the facts of the crime and showing the available evidence. As evidence is gathered, guests will learn from the workshop’s leaders how this type of evidence is collected and analyzed in a real forensic lab, as well as personally work through CSI procedures to identify the criminal.

Classes will be held in a mock-CSI lab taught by George Washington University graduate students. The workshops are conducted for all ages—families and adults.

**Free classes (excludes $17.95 admission to museum)

Official Website: http://www.crimemuseum.org