ACTIVITIES OF INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC RESEARCH TRAININGS FOR PROFESSIONALS
Jan 18, 2016
ACTIVITIES OF
INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC RESEARCH
TRAININGS FOR PROFESSIONALS
Participants
• Administration of justice system: – judges – public prosecutors – lawyers
Participants
• Police officers
• Border guards
• Firemen
Participants
• Medical doctors
• Diagnosticians
• Forensic chemists (analysts)
Participants
• Car engineers
• Employees of insurance companies
Participants
• Psychologists, pedagogues & psychiatrists
• Other forensic scientists
Teaching methods• Lectures• Workshops• Classes participation
(interactive exercises)• Simulations• Case work• ‘Take your case’• ‘Brainstorm’
Forensic Science Education Centre (FSEC)
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4070 Public prosecutors 1337 Judges
FSEC – Multimodal seminars • Judges
– Scientific evidence in legal proceedings
– Forensic expertise in inheritance cases
(7 seminars, 240 participants in total)
FSEC – Multimodal seminars • Public prosecutors
– Sudden death. Homicide, suicide or an unfortunate event?– Modern methods of human identification– Traces and their examination. Possibilities and limitations
of forensic sciences – Crime scene and its significance for modern forensic
sciences– Evidence collection at crime scene – Modern analytical methods used in forensic sciences.
Selected issues (26 seminars, 1503 participants in total)
FSEC – Criminalistics • Public prosecutors
– Forensic examination of documents and electronic data carriers
– Criminalistics in reconstruction of crime scene (11 seminars, 532 participants in total)
FSEC – Road accidents reconstruction
• Judges– Forensic reconstruction of road accidents
(9 seminars, 456 participants in total)
• Public prosecutors– Legal and technical aspects of road accidents
reconstruction (15 seminars, 735 participants in total)
FSEC – Road accidents reconstruction
• Police officers and insurance company employees– Fighting insurance crime
(1 seminar, 65 participants)
FSEC – Forensic Toxicology • Judges
– Alcohol and agents acting similarly to alcohol. Analytical and legal problems(3 seminars, 129 participants in total)
• Public prosecutors– Introduction to general and forensic toxicology– Toxicological expert opinion in criminal trial– Alcohol and agents acting similarly to alcohol. Analytical
and legal problems(5 seminars, 163 participants in total)
FSEC – Forensic Genetics • Judges
– Human identification by genetic examination
– Genetic expert opinion. Evaluation of DNA evidence (3 seminars, 124 participants in total)
• Public prosecutors– Examination of biological traces by means of DNA
techniques (5 seminars, 213 participants in total)
FSEC – Forensic Psychology
• Judges– Juvenile perpetrators of prohibited acts
– Pathology of the family
(15 seminars, 388 participants in total)
• Public prosecutors– Investigative psychology
– Selected aspects of psychological expert opinion
– Psychological expert opinion in criminal trials
– Profiling of murder perpetrators. Theory & practice
– Child as a victim of crime
(21 seminars, 924 participants in total)
FSEC – Forensic Psychology • Psychologists and pedagogues from Diagnostic-
Consulting Family Centres– Psychological expert opinions in cases concerning family– Psychological expert opinions in cases concerning violence
in family– Juvenile perpetrators of crimes. Reasons and signs of
aggression– Incest crimes. The role and duties of the forensic
psychologist– Violence and aggression. Conditions, mechanisms, and
counteracting
FSEC – Forensic Psychology • Psychologists and pedagogues from Diagnostic-
Consulting Family Centres (cntd)– Assessment of environmental conditions in the preparation
of psychological-pedagogical expert opinions
– Projective techniques in forensic expert opinions
– Cognitive questioning - theory and practice
– Social misadaptation of juvenile perpetrators of crimes. Diagnosis and resocialisation advises
– The use of Rorschach test in psychological expert opinion
(22 seminars, 722 participants in total)
Courses, seminars and symposia
organised in cooperation with
other institutions
Medical Training Centre of Post-graduate Education, Warsaw
2 two-weeks courses (lectures, pracical classes)– Toxicological analysis of biological material– Forensic alcohology and drug addiction
10-12 persons/course/year
Post-graduate study:• “Road Accident Expert Opinion” (lectures, seminars, and diploma exams)
Krakow University of Technology
Postgraduate studies:
• “The Psychology of Transport” (lectures)
• “Counselling and psychological help” (lectures)
Jagiellonian UniversityInstitute of Applied Psychology
Postgraduate study „Molecular biology”
(lectures)
Jagiellonian UniversityFaculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and
Biotechnology
Postgraduate study for public prosecutors (starting in March 2008)
Jagiellonian UniversityFaculty of Law and Administration
Other trainings (selected)
• Lectures for judges of appellate courts
• Trainings for prosecutors and prosecutor trainees of the appellate prosecutor offices
• Trainings for police psychologists, police officers dealing with drug crimes, motorway police men; also in cooperation with Police Training Centre in Legionowo
• Lectures for psychologists – forensic experts
• Training for barristers on court mistakes
• Training for administration of justice employees from Eastern European countries
FORJUST Project
Goals
• To have an inventory of the needs and expectations concerning the topics and range of the training courses in forensic sciences defined by the national training centres, the training participants and the forensic science institutes;
• To have a set of guidelines on which the education and professional training of judges, prosecutors, lawyers and police officers should be created;
• To have a working document on the qualifications of trainers including a first start on a register of internationally qualified trainers.