This fascinating and wide-ranging course will introduce you to a variety of fields and topics in forensic science.
Forensic Science QLS Level 3
ABC007£389.00£339.00
or £9.85 /month*
Course code: ABC007
*Pay monthly option available via Snap Finance on payment page in checkout
Course overview
- Gain a sound understanding of victimology.
- Discover how suspects are interviewed and interrogated.
- Study the treatment of psychopathic disorders in a prison environment.
Forensic scientists do not only use scientific methods and processes to assist with investigations. They must have strong understanding of criminology to help them interpret and validate scientific findings.
Covering scientific, psychological, criminological and social aspects of crime, this course equips you with a broad foundation of forensic knowledge, making an ideal first step for those considering a career in forensics.
This course will allow you to study the convenient way! You decide when and where you learn, at your own pace. Your coursework can be submitted by either post or email, making it easy and hassle-free.
All your course materials will then be delivered to you by post or email, so it couldn’t be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors are there to help you every step of the way by email, so help is only a click away!
Course content
- 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
Extra information
You will be assessed through a series of written assignments, which are submitted to your tutor for marking. No external examination is required.
You may start at any time and have a full year to complete your studies. We suggest that the course will take approximately 80 hours to complete. This is more than enough time to give you flexibility and work at your own pace without the pressure of deadlines.
The course is designed for study by distance learning at home or at work. Students will receive all course materials by post or online, as well as tutor support by email, so help is only a click away!
At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate 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).
Awarding body
This course has been endorsed by the Quality License Scheme for its high-quality, non-regulated provisions and training programmes.
This course and/or training programme is not regulated by Ofqual and is not an accredited qualification. Your training provider will be able to advise you on any further recognition, for example, progression routes into further and/or higher education. For further information please visit the learner FAQs on the Quality Licence Scheme website.
The Quality License Scheme’s endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.
FAQs
You do not need any previous knowledge to enrol onto this course.
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Not included with the online study option
No. Your certification is issued based on your tutor-marked assignments.
No. Everything you need is included in the price!
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