Course description
MSc Homicide Investigation
This Homicide Investigation Training Provides Unrivalled And Balanced Insight Into The Current Debates, Opportunities And Controversies Around The Discipline
Gain A Solid Understanding Of The Many Challenges And Opportunities Facing The Homicide Investigative Community Today.
- The course is taught in a distance learning format, with no attendance required on campus.
- All aspects of the programme are managed over the internet using a dedicated virtual learning environment platform which manages each participant’s learning schedule.
- The course will include access to online study materials plus tutorial and discussion forums for networking and interacting with tutors and peers.
- Forum discussions allow students to co-operate across time zones and share knowledge and experience and discuss the course content with other students and course tutors.
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Outcome / Qualification etc.
- Gain a solid understanding of the challenges associated with this area of investigation.
- Examine key themes and debates that shape policy and practice associated with homicide investigations.
- Address areas of contemporary concern within the field including effectiveness, lawfulness, risks and ethics all of which contribute to investigative legitimacy.
- Explore a wide range of subjects including the anatomy of homicide; reasons for success and failure in homicide investigation; the use of intelligence in proactive and reactive investigations; key themes, theories and types of homicide; covert techniques and investigative interview models.
- Be provided with a deep and systematic understanding of the discipline.
- Grow your employability with a unique yet highly-regarded qualification from a world-renowned university.
Training Course Content
The Programme is formed of 9 Modules, six of which are core and three are options that can be selected depending on interest.
- PGCert Homicide Investigation
Comprises three mandatory, core modules:
- Anatomy of Homicide Investigation
- Case Studies of Success and Failure in Historic and Contemporary Homicide Investigations
- Advanced Research Skills
- PGDip Homicide Investigation
Comprises the prior mandatory three modules plus, the following core modules:
- Homicide Investigations: Key Themes, Theories and Types
- Disclosure
Students will then select ONE of the following optional modules:
- Covert Techniques: Legislation and Operational Capability
- Use of Intelligence in Proactive and Reactive Investigations
- Investigative Interviewing
- MSc Homicide Investigation
Comprises of the prior requirement for the PGCert and the PGDip plus a dissertation of 15,000 words
- Dissertation - Intelligence Sharing and Cooperation
Students will be supervised in their dissertation by the most appropriate member of academic staff from across the Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies.
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