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Suicide Investigation Training
Course Description
This course covers all facets of suicide investigation including the gunshot wounds, stabbing and cutting, asphyxia, and toxicology issues related to overdose deaths. Time will be spent understanding the duties and responsibilities of the first responder, as well as identifying the sometimes subtle differences between suicide scene and other types of death scenes. Students will learn the proper way to investigate, sketch and / or photograph a suicide scene.
Students will learn how the medical examiner / coroner can assist in a suicide investigation, and the value of a forensic autopsy. The emphasis is on how and why the cause and manner of death is a vital part of any death investigation. Various mechanisms of death will be illustrated through photographs and video.
Who should attend?
Major crime investigators, detectives and supervisors, first responders, crime scene technicians, medical examiners and coroner's investigators, prosecutors and attorneys, and crime laboratory personnel would all benefit from this training course.
Course Content:
- Properly Investigating Suicide Scenes
- Victimology
- Cause and Manner of Death
- Gunshot Wounds
- Sharp Force Injury
- Blunt Force Injury
- Asphyxial Death
- Toxicology Considerations
- Suicide Notes
- The Forensic Autopsy
- The Psychological Autopsy
- Family Dynamics
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