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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
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