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Online Class: Child Abuse Recognition, Investigation, and Protection

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1.0 CEUs

Course Description

Preventing child abuse is everyone's responsibility. This includes law enforcement personnel, educational, medical personnel as well as housewives, friends, and neighbors. Child Abuse education is important so that they may recognize various aspects of child abuse, including neglect, sexual and physical abuse, and other forms of maltreatment.

This course offers basic instruction for students to help them to understand the typical profiles of child abusers and the definitions of various forms and aspects of neglect and abuse. Repercussions for failure to report suspected neglect or child abuse of any form may be punishable by civil or criminal liabilities. Who is required to report child abuse as well as the guidelines and protocols for reporting are addressed in these lessons.

Law-enforcement personnel are required to initiate investigations following jurisdictional procedure and protocol. Prosecutors are required to ensure that evidence is admissible in a court of law and that child abuse investigations are completed in a timely manner and as thoroughly as possible. Methods of interviewing children as well adults or suspects are included in this course.

Education and child abuse law enforcement procedures, investigative techniques, filing report guidelines and how surveillance is used to find and charge a suspect are all parts of a child abuse investigation that require teamwork. Learn how to recognize forms of abuse and understand child abuse cases, from crime scene investigation and preserving evidence to charging sexual or physical abuse reports and interrogating a suspect. Preventing child abuse is everyone's responsibility – learn how to spot it and how to stop it.

This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Instructor Matt Coburn

Course Lessons

Lesson 1: Introduction To Child Abuse Investigation - It is up to the adults to protect the innocents, and to recognize the dangers that harm them as well is to report such conditions to the proper authorities.
Lesson 2: Profiling Child Abusers - Child abusers come in all shapes and sizes, and can be either male or female, young or old, as well as coming from a wide variety of social status environments and structures.
Lesson 3: Defining Child Abuse and Neglect - Today there are different categories of abuse, and each initiates its own type of investigation.
Lesson 4: Recognizing the Basic Signs of Child Abuse - While there are various and basic indicators of abuse that should be recognized, these along do not constitute abuse.
Lesson 5: Assessing Signs of Abuse - Laymen as well as professionals should be able to spot the signs in order to assess the situation in conjunction with other bits and pieces of evidence, including witness statements and victim statements.
Lesson 6: Understanding Munchausen's by Proxy - This is as a condition that finds an adult planning, perpetrating and lying about illness or injuries suffered by a child for the sake of gaining attention.
Lesson 7: Who is Required to Report Child Abuse? - Child abuse reports can originate from a wide variety of people, from the children who are experiencing it to the family members who suspect child abuse and even those who have witnessed events that suggest a strong suspicion of any type or form of child
Lesson 8: Repercussions: Failure to Report and Protecting Reporters - Various procedures have been designed to help those in the professional fields as well as citizens to offer guidance in making a child abuse report.
Lesson 9: Child Abuse Law Enforcement Procedures - Guidelines help law enforcement personnel to make sure that laws, regulations, and statutes are met in order to protect not only suspected child abusers, but their victims and other family members throughout the investigation process.
Lesson 10: The Investigative Process - The most important aspect of a primary investigative or forensic interview is to be able to obtain and preserve the information that the victim alone is able to provide.
Lesson 11: Interviewing Children - The interview process for children contains several different factors that need to be followed, or at least to offer guidelines for a successful interview.
Lesson 12: Alternative Investigation Techniques - Basic techniques and protocol involved in any child abuse investigation case include the taking of photographs, gathering witness statements, and interviewing victims, family members, suspects.
Lesson 13: Confronting a Suspect - The most powerful piece of evidence in any successful conclusion of a child abuse case is the admittance of guilt by a suspect.
Lesson14: Child Abuse Crime Scene Investigation - When searching for evidence at the scene of a crime were homicide or child abuse has occurred, law enforcement officials must adhere to applicable laws of search and seizure when planning a search of any crime scene in their jurisdiction.
Lesson 15: Child Death Investigations - It is often difficult to get to the bottom of the truth in such situations. Investigators use protocol in each situation.
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