Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

• 11 - Personal, protective and transportation services
• 43. - Security and protective services
• 43.04 - Security science and technology

43.0402 - Criminalistics and criminal science

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the application of clinical and criminal laboratory science, investigative techniques, and criminology to the reconstruction of crimes and the analysis of physical evidence. These programs include courses in laboratory science, laboratory procedures, criminology and police science, evidentiary testing and analysis, computer applications, record keeping, reconstruction techniques, evidence handling and storage, and applications to specific types of evidence and crimes.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • criminal science
  • criminalistics

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • criminology(45.0401)
  • forensic science(43.0406)