After two full days of meetings and discussions, the contents of this textbook on criminal investigation were finally settled. Luo Chong officially named the book "Criminal Investigation Techniques" and designated it an internal publication for the government-official system. Its primary students would be the trainee clerks newly assigned to the Judicial Affairs Divisions of local government offices, and its distribution outside the government was prohibited.
The reason for prohibiting its distribution was to prevent the common people from learning the government offices' investigative procedures and then deliberately committing high-IQ crimes. If they learned counter-investigation techniques, they could cause the government offices unnecessary trouble.
This was something that had to be guarded against. There were plenty of examples in modern times—some people watched a few police-and-bandit films, copied what they saw, and became incredibly slick at counter-investigation. All sorts of bizarre tricks were impossible to guard against. In the days before surveillance cameras, they caused the police no end of trouble.
The Han Tribe did occasionally see murders now, but so far there had not been a single premeditated murder. Instead, there were many cases where people lost control during a fight and accidentally beat someone to death. Those were still fatal cases, but they were fundamentally different from murder.
If "Criminal Investigation Techniques" spread among the common people, the consequences might be:
Oh? There's actually a trick like this? So if I do this, the government office won't be able to find out that I'm the murderer!!!
Of course, one could guard against such things for a time, but not forever. At its root, public safety could only depend on legal education—making the common people familiar with the law. Even if they could not know it by heart, they had to understand the severity of breaking it. Add in effective