Investigating Cults and Understanding Cult Behavior
This course will be modified to
the level of expertise in the audience and can be adapted in the
classroom for multiple levels of experience and understanding.
Training Goals and Objectives
The goal of the training program is to prepare the
Investigator and Investigative Supervisor to conduct criminal
investigative analysis, general profiling and criminal profiling
techniques.
The course
will be directed at a multi agency approach to criminal
investigation, specifically. Several areas will be addressed; each
area by it self is an area of expertise requiring detailed
individual course instruction.
In
addition, the course will include an intense overview of criminal
behaviour and the understanding of behaviour as it relates to the
traditional forms of evidence, i.e., forensic, circumstantial,
eye-witness and confession.
Training Audience, Format and
Content
This course is intended for
various experience investigators, evidence technicians, supervisors,
and prosecution attorneys. It also has great value to the patrol
officer and new recruit. The intent of the trainers is to bridge
the learning gap obtained throughout a law enforcement career in the
area of evaluating crime scenes and help the less experienced
officer/investigator to avoid many of the mistakes and pitfalls
experience by veteran officers as they progressed in their
individual careers.
This course is most successful
when taught and received with audiences of 50 officers or fewer, but
has been given in groups of 400 or more with successful reviews.
The smaller groups enable officers to have more direct dialog with
the instructors and the other students.
The course is designed in a 2
day session. The course is generally designed to run from 0830 to
1630 hours daily.
The outline for the class is
as follows:
Day One:
·
Definition of
Cults, Secular – Christian – and the
‘‘Orthodox Bible-Based Cult’’
·
Identifying Cultic and “Closed Society”
Groups
·
Group Personality of Elitism, Unique
Causes and Special Ministries
·
How Do They Do It?
·
Heaven’s Gate Case Review
·
Common Abuses (Individuality,
Intimacy, Finances
and more)
·
Abuse Results
(Personality Changes,
Loss of Identity)
·
What Kind of Person Falls for these
Groups?
·
The “Zion Society” Case Review
Day Two:
·
Can
They
Be Dangerous?
·
The Lafferty
Brothers Murder Spree (Case Review)
·
Looking at
Other Dangerous Cultic Groups
·
Group
Construction (Convert versus
Generational Groups)
·
Recruitment
·
Issues
Surrounding Interviewing Members and Potential Victims
·
Dealing with
the Group Leadership
·
Solutions and
Recommendations
There are no pre –requisites to
this course.
Evaluation
The evaluation process is achieved by
class participation. (only)
Cost: (2) two day course
consisting of two (8) hour days:
TRAINING AIDS / MATERIALS TO
BE USED OR PROVIDED TO PARTICIPANTS
Student
materials will involve copies of “Analyzing Criminal Behavior II”,
Cooper/King, IQ Publishing, 2001 and in certain situations,
“Victimology”, King/Cooper, IQ Publishing, 2002
In addition, the
instructors will supply the student with copies of the FBI ViCAP
form and other pertinent information to include their own copy
written investigative forms dealing with Victimology Assessment,
Offender and Offender Risk Assessment, Evaluating the Initial
Contact Site, the Crime Scene and the Disposal Site as well as 6
other Major Case Investigative forms.
Depending on student
understanding, a wide range of video, audio and PowerPoint
presentations will be used in the training session, and the
instructors will come prepared with everything they will need to
make this an informative, fast-paced learning experience. The
materials will range from commercially driven video to personal
interviews conducted by the instructors with some of America’s
most dangerous murders, rapists and violent offenders.
Detailed lesson plans are
available as needed, but copies of the PowerPoint presentations
and crime scene photographs cannot be supplied with this
document.
Students are requested to
bring active / cold case investigations involving homicide /
rape / questionable death as they will apply learned profiling
filters, directly to their case during Case Review. This will
enable them to leave the course with knowledge and an actual
working product.
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