Sex Crimes Investigation
This course has been developed to enhance the skills, knowledge, and abilities of the first responder as well as the criminal investigator. The curriculum has specific investigative skill-based instruction designed to build on prior training and experience. The overview of sex-related crimes, sex offenders, and sexual perversions are presented from an investigative perspective. Instructional personnel, with extensive field experience in the investigation of sex-related crimes, deliver this professional development program in a manner designed to enhance an investigator’s analytical skills, along with their investigative skills and techniques. This training is delivered with graphic descriptions, language, and discussion. Videotapes, high impact instruction, crime scene photographs and actual case studies, designed to specifically illustrate and support the topics, are continually presented during this course. Participants will have an understanding of the skills, knowledge, and abilities associated with the utilization of criminal profiling techniques during the investigation, prosecution, incarceration, and monitoring of sex crime parolees. The course contains very practical information intended to aid police personnel in rendering successful resolution of criminal investigations of a sexual nature. Due to the varied course content, it is suitable for patrol personnel, newly appointed investigators as well as experienced investigators.
- Course Topics and Areas of Instruction
- Sex Crimes: Myth and Stereotyping
- Sexual Assault Response Team: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
- Dispatch and Types of Sexual Crimes
- Responding Officer and Preliminary Investigation
- Interviewing the Victim • Victimology, Victim Interviews and the Rape Trauma Syndrome
- Rape (Suspect) Typologies
- Crime Scene, DNA, and Evidence Collection
- Medical Examinations
- Criminal Profiling Techniques for Sex Crimes Investigators: Application of the Methodology Utilized When Analyzing Sexual Crimes
- Reliability of Eyewitness Identifications
- The Assessment of Verbal and Written Statements
- Profiling and the sexual offender
- Case study and group profiling
This is not a KLETC class.
Tuition: $795 If paid by cash/check / $820 If paid by credit card
Who Should Attend
Enrollment is recommended for and limited to law enforcement officers, (uniform patrol personnel, detectives, newly appointed investigators as well as experienced investigators), and other authorized officials who are responsible for investigating criminal investigations of a sexual nature.