Improve your advocacy: evidence-based understanding of sexual offending in criminal proceedings

Improve your advocacy: evidence-based understanding of sexual offending in criminal proceedings

By Dr Patrick Tidmarsh, leading authority and co-creator of the Operation Soteria RASSO investigation training 

Free training available to all barristers at the City Law School,

City St. George’s, University London

Venue: Moot Room, City Law School, Sebastian Street (entrance on Goswell Road), University London, London ECV1 OHB https://maps.app.goo.gl/HJA78i8ato2rHAYs9

Register for the course: https://tinyurl.com/SoteriaforRASSObarristers

Dates

Session1: May 26^th, 17:30-19:00

Session 2: June 16^th, 17:30-19:00

Session 3: June 17^th, 17:30-19:00

Note: The sessions build on one another. If at all possible, we encourage participants to attend all three sessions.

Session 1

• Understanding sexual offenders
• The dynamics of relationship-based crimes
• Suspect focused investigations
• Whole Story and relevant evidence

Session 2

• Victim-centred practice and rapport
• Memory and Traumatic memory
• Listening, questions, and getting the ‘Whole Story’
• Effective VRIs and ‘Achieving Best Evidence’

Session 3

• Building effective case narratives
• Presenting the ‘Whole Story’ and the ‘Why’
• Addressing assumptions and misconceptions

About the trainer

Dr Patrick Tidmarsh is a leading authority on sexual offending, the investigation of sexual crime, and forensic interviewing. He trains and lectures all over the world, helping police and other professionals to understand sexual offending, develop effective investigative and forensic interviewing practices, and improve responses for both victims and offenders.

He has worked in the field of sexual crime for over thirty-five years. For twenty of those years he worked in sex offender treatment, in prisons and in the community, with both adults and adolescents. He worked in policing for twelve years, training detectives, and developing the specialism of sexual crime investigation. Patrick developed the ‘Whole Story’ method of investigating sex crimes, a ground-breaking initiative designed to combat victim blaming, teach detectives how to understand the dynamics of sexual crime, and improve the gathering of evidence in sexual offence cases.

Patrick’s book about sexual offending and investigations is entitled, “The Whole Story. Investigating sexual crime: Truth, lies, and the path to justice”, and is published by Jonathan Cape.