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’

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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.