Forensic Science and Criminology Diploma

Course Structure

Forensic Science

• Pioneers of Forensic Science
• Case Study 1 – The Bodies under the Bridge Case
• Forensic Pathology
• Forensic Anthropology
• Forensic Biology
• Case Study 2 The Body in the Carpet
• Cranio-facial Reconstruction
• Serology – DNA – Body Fluids
• Case Study 3 – Who Killed Bambi?
• Crime Scene Management
• Ballistics
• Fingerprints
• Forensic Photographer
• Case Study 4 – Doctor Death
• Forensic Toxicology
• Disputed Documents
• Computer Crime
• Case Study 5 Miscarriages of Justice
• The Chain of Evidence/The Professionalisation of the Investigative Process
• Case Study 6 Cold Cases
• Careers in Forensics

Criminology

• Introduction to Criminology
• Social Order Maintenance in Celtic & Roman Britain
• Inequality before the Law
• Criminalisation, Victims and the Role of the State
• Classicism and Positivism
• The Anglo American Model and the Chicago School of Criminology
• Anomie, Social Control & Deviant Subculture Theories
• Administrative Criminology
• Labelling Theory and Critical Criminology
• Right Realism
• Left Idealism and Left Realism
• Feminist Criminology
• Ethnicity and Crime
• Mentally Disordered Offenders and the Criminal Justice System
• Young Offenders and the Criminal Justice System
• Children and Criminology
• agencies of Social Control
• The National Probation Service
• Incarceration and Punishment
• White Collar Crime
• Violent Crime

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