Are you keen to star in CSI: South Africa? Think you’d be better cut out for the job than Grissom or Horatio? Well, the world of forensic science may not be as glamorous as the telly portrays it, but it’s definitely a very exciting scientific discipline worth delving into.

Let’s look at the evidence: Forensic scientists do invaluable work linking evidence from crime scenes to criminals. They also help solve crimes by reconstructing faces from skulls (which they sometimes animate or virtually age) and studying corpses to pinpoint the cause and time of death.

They also play a very important role in convicting the felon in a court of law by presenting the evidence to juries.

But this is all surface info you already know. Stay tuned for the good stuff.

In the meanwhile, here’s some fun stuff to keep you busy…

• Want to be a CSI investigator? Here’s your chance: This website features fictional crime cases in a unique combination of interactive fiction and gaming. Each week detectives post evidence from the current case. You are invited to participate in the investigation by reviewing the presented evidence and offering your theories and questions to the detectives and other web sleuths. Go on – see if you can solve the case…
• Basic equipment for crime scene investigators
• The petty crime hall of fame
• Criminology is the scientific study of crime, criminals, criminal behavior and corrections .Interested? Here’s some more info…