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Investigating a Murder with Forensic Psychology
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Overview

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

4,909

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

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Investigating a Murder with Forensic Psychology
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FutureLearn 
Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • Explore the way suspects are dealt with during a police investigation and how psychology can help the police with their enquiries
  • This immersive and engaging short course will showcase applied psychology in a highly interesting context
  • Become a detective investigating a murder as you join two fictional detectives working alongside a senior investigating officer
  • This complex criminal case has been carefully written to be realistic by a team of academic and policing practitioner experts
  • Delve into the psychological skills that can help police in an investigation.
  • Learn how to spot a liar, how to establish rapport, the impact of cognitive bias, and how to plan an interview
  • This will also include investigating falses confessions and developing and assessing an interview plan
  • Learn from the specialists with a well-established network of policing practitioners
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Investigating a Murder with Forensic Psychology
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Introduction to the case

Welcome to the course

The investigation timeline

The initial witness interview

Detecting a deception

New witness statements

Suspect interviews and establishing rapport

Introducing police suspect interviews

The importance of rapport

DI Bullet interviews Neale

Confessions

How reliable are confessions in criminal investigations?

Interrogation, suggestibility and false confessions

Evaluating DI BulletÂ?s suspect interview

New evidence and new suspects

Conclusion to the case

Dealing with the new suspect

Interviewing the new suspect

Assessment of the suspect interview and case closure

Course wrap up

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