This course is only available to state prosecutors and practicing prosecuting advocates.
If you would information on prices and how to enrol on this course please contact us at [email protected] using your work email address and we will send you more information.
The course
Welcome
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Understanding juries
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Understanding sex offenders
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Understanding victims
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What are these cases about?
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Investigations: Victim interviews
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- When to interview victims (0:53)
- The trauma memory interview for recent or traumatised victims (7:42)
- Setting up an effective interview (1:58)
- Interview tactics: Treat every case as a stranger assault (1:24)
- Interview tactics: The suspect-focused victim interview (4:03)
- Interview tactics: Using trauma as evidence of a lack of consent (2:17)
- Interview tactics: Asking challenging questions (1:43)
- Interview tactics: Dealing with rape myths (0:45)
- Interview tactics: Making sense of the things that don't make sense (1:25)
- Handout: Misconceptions about sexual violence
- Further reading
Investigations: Suspect interviews
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- Setting up an effective suspect interview (3:51)
- Interview tactics: Be the right audience (5:58)
- Interview tactics: Victim selection (6:08)
- Interview tactics: Victim isolation (5:13)
- Interview tactics: The alleged offence and consent (5:39)
- Interview tactics: What happened next? (5:04)
- Setting up your case theory (2:35)
- Handout: Thinking about suspect interviews
- Further reading
False reports
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Prosecutions: Case theory
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Prosecutions: Getting to know the jury
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Prosecutions: Complainant evidence in court
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Prosecutions: Questioning the defendant in court
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The complainant's journey
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Looking after yourself
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Admin
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Course instructor
Dr Nina Burrowes
Our founder Dr Nina Burrowes is a psychologist and nationally recognised expert on the psychology of sexual harassment, sexual violence and domestic abuse. A regular educator of police officers, prosecutors, barristers, judges, therapists, healthcare professionals and university staff Dr Burrowes is the author of two books on sexual abuse and the presenter of the BBC’s ‘Rape on trail. Is the jury out?’
Nina is Patron of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre.