UNIVERSITY OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND POLICE STUDIES

THE SPECIALIST ACADEMIC STUDIES OF CRIMINALISTICS

Course:

Crime Investigation Management

Course Code: D23

ECTS: 6

Course Status:

Elective

Number of Effective Classes (Per Week): 3 + 1

Theoretical Education:

Practical Training:

Research Study Project:

3

1

-

Prerequisite/s: None

Educational Objective: Acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to effectively manage criminal investigations. Ability to appropriately manage criminal investigations, evaluation procedure of proving, evaluating the work of investigators and the evaluation of the organizational units of the criminalistic police.

Projected Outcome: Ability to appropriately manage criminal investigations, evaluation procedure of proving, evaluating the work of investigators and the evaluation of the organizational units of the criminalistic police.

Course Contents/Structure

Theoretical education: The organization and working methods of the criminalistic police; The principles of criminalistic police work; Work ethic Criminalistic Police; Concept, characteristics and types of information and evidence; The rules and standards in dealing with evidence; Basic characteristics of proof and the role of the police in the process of proof; The concept and basic features of a criminal investigation; Types of criminal investigations (proactive and reactive criminal investigation); Initial theoretical basis of criminal investigations; The subject, objectives and tasks of criminal investigations;Models criminal investigations (General model of proof; ACCESS model, the SARA model, model ACPO Criminal Investigation); The management of criminal investigations (Decision-making in criminal investigations, planning of criminal investigations, investigation and evaluation of evidence: Evaluation of material and personal evidence; Evaluation of police officers and organizational units of the criminal police); Strategies criminal investigations; Management models criminal investigations (Management of criminal investigations in the UK, management criminal investigations in Canada);Application of the method of logical reasoning and crime in criminal investigations; The use of software in criminal investigations; The importance of criminal operational analysis in the management of criminal investigations; The work of the criminalistic police directed intelligence-lead policing; International cooperation in the organization and realization of criminal investigations (exchange of information and the work of joint investigation teams).

Practical training: Analysis of practical examples, the identification of the positive and negative factors of which may depend on the process of proving a crime that was the subject of investigation.

Teaching Methods: lecture, modified lecture, simulation, research/paper studies.

Assessment (Maximum Number of Points: 100)

Pre-Exam Obligations

No. of Points

Final Examination

No. of Points

Active participation in classes

10

Oral examination

50

Research paper/study

20

 

 

Term test(s)

20

 

 

Textbook/s

1. Djurdjević, Z., Radović, N. (2017), Kriminalistička operativa, Beograd: Kriminalističko-policijska akademija.

2. Đurđević, Z., Kolarević, D., Ivanović, Z., Milojković, B. (2012). Kriminalističko profilisanje, Beograd: Kriminalističko-policijska akademija.

3. Vuković, S., Radović, N. (2012). Prevencija organizovanog kriminala, Beograd: Kriminalističko-policijska akademija.

4. James, W. O., Richard, H. W., (2010). Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past, Anderson.

5. Rossmo, D. K., (2010). Criminal investigative failures, Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

6. Tong, S., Bryant, P.R., Horvath M. (2009). Understanding criminal investigation, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.