Crime Scene Investigation and Forensic Science QLS Level 3

• Introduction
• What is Forensic Science?
• Locards Principle of Exchange
• The beginnings of forensic science
• Who and what?
• Specialist forensic services

• Introduction
• Identifying a crime scene
• The location of the scene
• Crime scene procedures

• Key areas of biological forensic evidence
• DNA
• DNA Extraction
• Fingerprints
• Odontology
• Blood spatter analysis

• Removing forensic evidence from a body
• DNA
• Fingerprints from the deceased
• Fibres
• Making an impression
• Crime scene risk assessments
• Legislation affecting the recovery of forensic evidence

• Packaged for success
• Recovering the item
• Sealing and labelling evidence
• Reporting the findings
• Different forms of packaging
• Chain of Evidence

• Introduction
• Writing a Statement
• Advocate: assessing witness reliability
• The court system

• Locard’s exchange principle within the context of Elizabeth’s crime scene
• Importance of protecting the crime scene
• Tracing evidence to establish cause and time of death
• Approaches that could be used in establishing time of death

• Psychological theories to gain offender characteristics from a crime scene
• Profiling approaches, including routine activity theory, statistics
• Evaluating theories
• Applying theories to cases: kidnap, murder, arson or sniper

• Defining victimology
• Victimology’s contribution to crime scene analysis from a forensic victimologist perspective
• Theories of victimology
• Victim precipitation
• Routine activity theory
• Stockholm syndrome
• Munchausen syndrome by proxy
• Creating a hypothetical profile

• Characteristics of the psychopath
• Highlighting characteristics using Hare’s PCL-R
• Gender differences in characteristics and criminal behaviour
• Difficulty in interrogating and obtaining a confession from an identified psychopath

• Outlining prisoners’ rights to mental healthcare
• Mental Health Act 1983 and the changes in 2007
• The directive from the Department of Health, 2014
• Biological treatments for prisoners diagnosed with mental health issues
• Psychological treatments for prisoners diagnosed with mental health issues
• Treating criminals with severe mental disorders effectively

• Difference between the retributional and reformative approach to punishment
• Theories
• Statistical evidence
• Moral and ethical issues of bringing back capital punishment in the UK

This course is assessed by a series of assignments which are submitted to your tutor for marking. No external examination is required.

Once enrolled, you will have two years to complete this bundle (one year per course), which will allow you to work at your own pace, without the pressure of tight deadlines. You will also receive 12 months tutor support for each course, so you can feel confident that you’ll get the help you need. Studying around your work and family commitments has never been easier.

The course is designed for study by distance learning at home or at work. You will receive your course materials by post or online, plus tutor support by mail or email, so help is only a click away!

At the end of this course successful learners will receive two Certificate’s of Achievement from the Quality License Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).