Crime Scene Investigation and Forensic Science QLS Level 3

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Course Content

Crime Scene Investigation CSI QLS Level 3

Unit 1: An Introduction to Forensic Science

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

Unit 2 Scene Management

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

Unit 3 Crime Scene Evidence Part 1 - Biological Evidence

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

Unit 4 Crime Scene Evidence Part 2 − Body Crime Scene

• 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

Unit 5 Evidence Handling

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

Unit 6 Presenting and Preparing Evidence for Court

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

Unit 1 Human remains: the scientific approach to a crime scene

• 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

Unit 2 Psychological approach to a crime scene

• 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

Unit 3 Victimology: the silent witness

• 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

Unit 4 The language of the psychopath: identifying; interviewing and interrogating suspects

• 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

Unit 5 Treatment of psychopathic disorders in prison

• 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

Unit 6 The science of killing: the debate on capital punishment

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