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(5 Day) Basic Criminal & New Detective Training
Length of Seminar: 5 Days
Instructor: Brian Jarvis and Thomas Tittle
Course Objective:
Beginning the Criminal Investigation:
- Defining crime | Evidence & scene issues | Investigative training skills required | The investigator’s responsibilities | The preliminary inquiry
The Crime Scene:
- Fourth amendment considerations | Judicially created exceptions | Search warrant requirements | Crime scene search & protection of area | Evidence maintenance
Injury and Death Investigations:
- Motives for murder | Classifications of homicide | Evaluation of information from the autopsy | Time of death considerations | Wound information and evidence | Firearms | Blunt force trauma | Incisions | Stabbing | Offender injuries from self-wounding | Suicide investigations | Autoerotic Asphyxia & “The Choking Game”
Sex Crimes:
- The basic principles of deviant sexual behavior | Paraphilias | 32 Investigative strategies for investigating sex crimes
The Supplemental Investigation:
- Where your investigation begins | Legal issues involving the investigation | Goals and objectives of a successful investigation | The importance of the post-arrest investigation | Solvability factors / case filtering | Studies impacting criminal investigations | Sources of information | Knowing and utilizing the resources available to you | Conducting successful lineups | Analytical tools and the Internet | UCR / NIBRS
Robbery Investigations:
- Overview & elements of robbery investigations | Legal considerations of robbery investigations | Robbery classifications | Investigative strategies | Crime prevention and education
Property Crime Investigations:
- Identity Crimes | Investigative Techniques & Resources | Confidence games | 7 deadly scams | Miscellaneous thefts | The Ponzi scheme | Burglary | Fraudulent complaints | Recovery of stolen property
Police-Media Relations:
- Legal and moral responsibilities of law enforcement | Quotable quotes | The role of the media | Case law involving First and Sixth Amendment rights | Four types of contact with the media
The Interviews:
- Introduction to interviewing | Witness reliability issues | The innocence project | Witness types | Special circumstances | Elderly victims/witnesses | Child victims/witnesses | Impaired victims/witnesses
Conducting Interrogations:
- Goals of the interrogation | Legal guidelines | Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights | U.S. Supreme Court Decisions | Planning and documenting the interrogation
Crimes Involving Computers:
- Categories of computer crimes | Search warrants | Exceptions to search warrants | Recovery procedures | Evidentiary issues | Resources for investigating computer crimes
Management of Your Cases:
- Prioritizing your case loads | Recommendations for submissions to the prosecutor
Case Study: Florida Serial Homicide Investigation – Aileen Wuornos
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