Instructor: Laura Pettler, Ph.D.
Course length: 4 hours

First 48: Research-Based Forensic Victimology for Death Investigation

The vision for this course is to identify components of forensic victimology, define victimology, and explore how to use Pettler’s Research-Based Forensic Victimology in the field.
 
Victimology is the analytical study of the victim and research-based forensic victimology is the core of modern, sophisticated, investigatory practice in death cases. Victimology is not part of a death investigation, it is the core of scientific death investigation. The importance of conducting research-based forensic victimology within THE FIRST 48 hours of a death investigation cannot be understated. Research-based forensic victimology can help investigators avoid cases going cold, failure to identify violent offenders before they kill again, or the inability to prosecute when victims’ “suicides”, “accidental”, “natural”, or “undetermined” deaths are later determined to be homicides and murders. This webinar introduces Pettler’s Research-Based Forensic Victimology approach to preparing, conducting, and analyzing victimological information for crime scene investigators, detectives, coroners, and prosecutors.



This course has been approved for 4 hours of recertification training credits by the IAI Crime Scene Certification Board.
Laura Pettler, Ph.D
​​After 18 years, Dr. Pettler’s commitment to using scientific mixed-method research-based methodologies like her Crime Scene Staging Trilogy Method, Victim-Centered Death Investigation Methodology, and The Murder Room method has allowed her to get closer to the most plausible manner of death. Dr. Pettler specializes in staged murders: murders made to look like suicides, made to look like accidents, naturals, or murders. Her area of expertise is focused in intimate partner and domestic violence hot and cold homicide cases, which in some cases extends to missing persons, serial homicide, and sexual homicide as well. Laura is the author of the first book in the world on crime scene staging entitled Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases.​

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