CRJ 376 Advanced Criminal Investigations
Course introduces students to selected advanced concepts within the criminal investigations field. Beginning with death investigations, students will examine case studies involving the different manners of death, fatalities involving infants/children, and the recovery of buried human remains. The course continues with topics involving sexual assaults of adults to include rape typologies of offenders, linkage analysis involving serial rapists, and false allegations. The course examines the increasing role digital forensics plays with violent crimes, such as rape/murder. The course will culminate with the topic of criminal investigative failures, explaining how cognitive biases, groupthink, and tunnel vision negatively affect criminal investigations.