Investigating Sexual Assault Cases
Sexual assault is long considered the 2nd most violent crime and only homicide surpasses the impact to the victim to rape and sexual assault. This course covers aspects of the initial response, aspects of crime scene examination and collection of forensic evidence. We introduce two victim interview techniques to get the most important from the victim when it is the most critical. Aspects of human sexuality and how a sex offender is developed, defining offender typology, drug facilitated sexual assaults, special victims (males, juveniles, handicapped), and special offenders (women, juveniles, drug facilitated offenders), as well as additional instruction on offender interview techniques for each type of offender and working with prosecutors. The course is completed with a section on identifying false rape complaints.

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