Pennsylvania Center for Investigative and Forensic Sciences

About the Center:

At the Pennsylvania Center for Investigative and Forensic Sciences, a team of criminologists and forensic, behavioral and legal scientists offers professional services for police officers, detectives, district attorneys, coroners, public defenders and others involved in the administration of justice.
The center's team serves the community by undertaking advanced research and providing real-time investigative consulting and professional training programs.

Consulting Services:

The scope of the investigative team's consulting services is expansive, with special emphasis on:
Cold case homicides and missing persons.
Wrongful convictions, through the Appalachian Innocence Project. Violent crime analysis.
Equivocal death analysis. Threat assessments.
Forensic interviews and interrogations. Crime scene reconstruction.

Professional Training:

The center offers online courses, several of which are taught by some of the original criminal profilers with the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va.

Because the courses are delivered online, they may be taken at any time.

Participants may be eligible for college credit based upon Prior Learning Assessment. For more information on how to obtain academic credit for these professional courses, contact the Pennsylvania Center for Investigative and Forensic Sciences at 724-938-1576.

Academic Scholarships:

We are grateful and deeply honored to be able to provide academic scholarships to Criminal Justice students at Pennsylvania Western University. This is due to the generosity of the families of the late Robert Roy Hazelwood and the late Michael R. Napier, both of whom were pioneers in the behavioral criminal sciences. Accordingly, owing to each benefactor there is an endowed scholarship for our students that will exist in perpetuity as well as academic awards in their names.

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