Course Description
Aquatic Crimes Against Women (ACAW) Homicides Staged as Drowning Accidents or Suicides
ACACW are often fatal, are too often misdiagnosed as accidents, suicides, or natural deaths, and occur more frequently than is currently understood. Forms include aquatic: nonfatal IPV, sexual assault and sadism, homicide, land-based homicides staged as non-criminal drowning. homicidal drowning, and elder abuse. These cases present 16 main challenges. They’re typically treated as accidental drowning from the time of dispatch right through to cause and manner of death diagnosis. Law enforcement, medical personnel, IPV workers, and jurisprudence members almost never have training to recognize, identify, document, investigate and prosecute them. Drowning is a diagnosis of exclusion. These are mainly circumstantial evidence cases. This presentation will present ACAW red flags and provide a practical, proven investigative framework.
This course is a 3hr Video Webinar with Andrea Zaferes
8 Handouts
20 Question Examination
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Each student will receive a completion certification with several credits and 5 CPD hours
With 31 years working in the fields of diving education, diving rescue and fatality investigation, 27 years in the public safety dive/water rescue community, 20 years in aquatic fatality investigations and 14 years working as a medicolegal death investigator for Dutchess County Medical Examiner office, Andrea works with TeamLGS teaching fire, law enforcement, EMS, death investigators, prosecutors, and military personnel. She is a noted innovator in aquatic death investigation. Andrea is the NYS Department of Criminal Justice Services Aquatic Death Investigation Instructor, has more than 100 publications, is an aquatic consultant for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, has presented at more than 175 forensic, diving and rescue conferences, has taught over 5,000 law enforcement/death investigators in her Aquatic Death and Homicidal Drowning Investigation program series, and serves as a body-found-in-water expert witness. Andrea has received national and international awards such as the DAN-Rolex Diver of the Year and Beneath the Sea Diver of the Year.
Andrea Zaferes
Specialist Instructor
Course curriculum
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ACAW Live Webinar Video 1
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Cycle Of Domestic Violence Women & children first
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Power Control wheel NO SHADING
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2018-YWCA-Spokane-Healthy-Relationship-Wheel
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2018-YWCA-Spokane-Power-and-Control-Wheel
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Aquatic Death Investigation Protocols Abstract 2-24-20
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Co-occurring forms of criminal asphyxia Abstract- AAFS 2020 Final
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A-Z Bathtub investigation form revised 2-20-20.
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On Drowning ADHDI chapter 2015
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Aquatic Crimes Against Women Examination
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About this course
- $50.00
- 10 lessons
- 3 hours of video content