Criminalistics Diploma
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NCC Home Learning is an amazing learning company. It can be hard to study sometimes with work & family commitments but NCC Home Learning are so supportive. Your not badgered to complete work its all at your own pace. The tutors and Sally are quick to respond to queries and questions and are always there to offer help. I would highly recommend this company to anyone that wants to learn from home. Thank you NCC for all your support. Would highly recommend.
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I have done the Criminalistics Diploma lately and I loved it. The course was quite fascinating, with modules starting from fingerprinting and ballistics to crime scene psychology. It also offered practical involvements in some modules which was fun to do. I have always had an inclination towards criminology and felt the modules were descriptive and wrapped up all the helpful and suitable data. The input from my tutor Philip Boyce was brilliant and motivating and helpful too. Much obliged to Shaun Connick and Sally Swift for responding to my emails promptly. I will surely keep learning from NCC.
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Distance Learning
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Different dates available
The Criminalistics Diploma is an ideal course for an individual looking to gain more information on this distinct discipline that operates along with other disciplines under the umbrella of forensic science.
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NCC Home Learning is an amazing learning company. It can be hard to study sometimes with work & family commitments but NCC Home Learning are so supportive. Your not badgered to complete work its all at your own pace. The tutors and Sally are quick to respond to queries and questions and are always there to offer help. I would highly recommend this company to anyone that wants to learn from home. Thank you NCC for all your support. Would highly recommend.
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I have done the Criminalistics Diploma lately and I loved it. The course was quite fascinating, with modules starting from fingerprinting and ballistics to crime scene psychology. It also offered practical involvements in some modules which was fun to do. I have always had an inclination towards criminology and felt the modules were descriptive and wrapped up all the helpful and suitable data. The input from my tutor Philip Boyce was brilliant and motivating and helpful too. Much obliged to Shaun Connick and Sally Swift for responding to my emails promptly. I will surely keep learning from NCC.
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Recommended
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Stacey Westbury
Mark Quine
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All courses are up to date
The average rating is higher than 3.7
More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months
This centre has featured on Emagister for 16 years
Subjects
- Purchasing
- Glass
- Truck
- Gas
- Creative Thinking
- Interpreting
- Psychology
- Forensic Psychology
- Firearms
- Criminalistics
Course programme
Course Description
Criminalistics is the forensic science of analysing and interpreting evidence using the natural sciences. Forensic science pertains to all sciences applied to legal problems. Criminalists use the science of criminalistics to solve crimes. They examine and identify physical evidence to reconstruct a crime scene. Physical evidence may be anything: evidence so small that a microscope is needed to see it, or as large as a truck. It may be as subtle as a whiff of a flammable gas at an arson scene or as obvious as a pool of blood at a murder scene. The enormous range of material challenges the ingenuity of the criminalist who examines and identifies hair, fibres, blood, seminal and body fluid stains, alcohol, drugs, paint, glass, botanicals, soil, flammables, and safe insulating material; restores smeared or smudged markings; and identifies firearms and compares bullets, tool markings and footprints. Criminalists use this physical evidence to provide a link between a suspect and the victim. The transfer of clothing fibres or hair fibres between a suspect and the victim can provide just such a link. Fingerprints, bullets, and shoe impressions are other important links.
It is not possible for a single person to become proficient in the examination and analysis of all types of physical evidence. Increasingly, criminalists and other workers in forensic science laboratories are specialising in the examination of one or a few types of physical evidence. For example, forensic biologists analyse the biological or genetic properties of evidence, trace evidence analysts identify material that is transferred between two objects and determine its origin, and firearms and tool mark experts examine firearms, ammunition components, and tools and marks left by them.
Although not, strictly speaking, a component of criminalistics, a module on psychological evidence has been included in this course because the input for the discipline of forensic psychology is heavily dependent on the output of criminalistics.
At the beginning of each module is detailed guidance of the evidence against which the students’ work will be assessed. It is essential that the students make constant reference to this guidance as they progress through each module.
The final module is a reference and data file. It is possible for the student to obtain a bare pass in the course using only the course material and the material contained in the reference and data file. This file also points the student to further reading and websites which will assist in further research and allow the student to evidence independent enquiry and creative thinking, thereby securing a more creditable pass.
Our aim is to provide you with the best deal available when purchasing your course, therefore registration fee, certification fee and full tutor support is included in the course price for you.
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Criminalistics Diploma