Sex Crimes Investigation

Certification

This course is certified by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board.

Training Mandates

This course meets state guidelines for the following mandated subject areas:

• Law Update  (annual)
• Civil Rights  (every 3 yrs.)
• Constitutional & Proper Use of Authority  (every 3 yrs.)
• Human Rights  (every 3 yrs.)
• Procedural Justice  (every 3 yrs.)
• Lead Homicide Recertification  (32 hrs. credit)

Description

Agencies outside Mobile Team 12 should register directly with the Southern Police Institute, University of Louisville.

Flyer and Registration info.

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.

Disclaimer:  This course is delivered with graphic descriptions, language and discussion. Photographs, videos, interactive instruction, and actual case studies may be used to illustrate and support the topics presented during this course. Course content is developed from actual cases involving perpetrators who have been prosecuted for the crimes being discussed. The psychological and cultural worlds within which these individuals operate are openly presented.

Host Agency:  Champaign Police Department

Topics

• Myths and Stereotyping of Sexual Assault Cases
• Legal and Ethical Aspects of Sexual Assault Investigations
• Rape Trauma Syndrome & Emotional First Aid
• Initial Response
• The Man Behind the Mask Case Study Part I
• Physical Evidence
• Interviewing and Interrogation
• Pattern Identification, Investigation & Response
• The Man Behind the Mask Case Study Part II
• Stress Management for Sexual Assault Investigators
• Mobile Phone, Social Media and Digital Photograph Exploitation
• Special Investigative Challenges: Alleged Assault Within Institutions
• Criminal Profiling Techniques for Sex Crimes Investigators
• The Reliability of Eyewitness Identifications
• False Allegations of Rape
• The Assessment of Verbal and Written Statements to Determine Deception
• Analysis of Six Rape Victim Statements to Determine Deception and Case Linkage
• Case Study: “Lethal Shadow: A True Crime Story of a Sadistic Serial Rapist & Killer”

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