Sherlock Holme Research Paper

Crime investigation has been changed over the years because of Sherlock Holmes stories. These stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle have changed how people look and examine crime scenes. Arthur Conan Doyle changed many things with his stories involving forensic techniques and criminal investigation. His stories also changed the detective work, how ciphers are figured out, and how handwriting is connected to a specific person. Conan doyle reflect his opinion in how he changed these 3 things and more through his stories.

Sherlock stories tell that detective work was and still is important. In one of the stories, Sherlock caught everyone by surprise when he revealed the criminals height, weight, and many others just by looking at a wet footprint in the little garden in the back yard. He also explained how the evidence he found led to his accurate conclusion. Conan Doyle’s stories also showed his opinion about “reason backwards” because it was often used in the stories he wrote. “Reason backwards” is looking at the criminal act and working backwards to lead him to evidence. This is a hard process to do accurately because people struggle working backwards but it can help guide to an conclusion and solves the case.

Arthur Conan Doyle also used

and solved ciphers in his many sherlock stories. In “The Gloria Scott”, Sherlock deduced that every third word in lines of gibberish created a message that frighted Old Trevor. Many of these cipher techniques were applied during World Wars to decipher messages from the enemy. Our law enforcement have also worked through ciphers using what Conan Doyle told in his sherlock stories.
Handwriting is also a key to crime investigation.

If there is any writing that has to do with the crime this is helpful. In “The Norwood Builder”, Holmes determines by the timing of the imperfections in the scrawl of a will, that it was written aboard a train. In Victoria, London, where the story took place, handwriting was more prevalent than it is today. Holmes was able to determine the gender, class and maturity of the writer just by inspecting the pressure, angle, and consistency. Today, handwriting analysis is used to determine forgeries, psychological profiling, and alternations in writing due to the influence of drugs, alcohol, and exhaustion or illness. Handwriting analysis is an important to any crime scenes now and

then.
Sherlock Holmes stories have changed crime investigation and forensic science over many years. They changed the way ciphers were looked at, how the handwriting was determined, and the detective work during the case. His stories have also changed many other things involving crimes. They changed how the crime scenes are looked at and lots other things too but i’m sure there is more changing to come.