Crime Scene

 Investigation 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

  Forensic Science

  Level 3:

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