First 48: Research-Based Forensic Victimology for Death Investigation

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

Dr. Pettler’s career is dedicated to using her life to leave the world better than she found it. Dr. Pettler’s job as a forensic criminologist specializing in staged homicide cases is to analyze physical, behavioral, and sociological evidence towards solving the most challenging murders and death investigations in the world. Dr. Pettler is the Deputy Coroner Commander of the Lancaster County South Carolina Coroner’s Office Mounted Response Unit and is a former North Carolina District Attorney’s Investigator where she was the co-founder and director of North Carolina’s first and only Crime Scene Reconstruction & Behavioral Analysis Program and head of the district’s first Cold Case Task Force.

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