Course description
Understandthenatureofdifferent weapon types used in criminal activity. Evaluate the construction of improvised weapons and their wounding potential in real life scenarios.
Upcoming start dates
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Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
On successful completion of this module a student should be able to:
- Analyse wounding patterns by individual weapons
- Assess Trauma patterns in soft tissue and bone
- Evaluate the construction of improvised weapons used in criminal activity
- Identify and discuss the suitability of tissue simulants.
- Identify weapon type by wounding patterns
- Analysis of key response markers in non-biological materials.
Training Course Content
Core content
- Discuss and evaluate commonly used weapons by examining case studies.
- Blunt Trauma and the biomechanics of tissue damage
- The effect of body armour on wounding potential of weapons
- Use and interpretation of wounding data.
- Microscopy and micro CT analysis
- Practical use of stab/slash/blunt trauma rigs to examine the effect of a variety of weapons.
- Use of tissue simulants
- Weapon identification from wounding patterns in historical cases
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