In 1962, the FBI reported a national homicide clearance rate of 93%. That rate dropped 29
points by 1994. This Great Decline has been studied and accepted as a real phenomenon …

Research Summary We conducted face‐to‐face interviews with 50 young Black men,
residents of high‐crime neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx, individuals who had …

Purpose Detective work is a mainstay of modern law enforcement, but its effectiveness has
been much less evaluated than patrol work. To explore what is known about effective …

This Article endeavors to measure how effectively police peform at their core function-
solving crime. The metric most commonly used to measure police effectiveness at crime …

The available scientific evidence on the value of detectives in clearing crimes generally
suggests that most crimes are solved through the random circumstances of crime scenes …

Objectives This paper investigates the influence of case characteristics and investigative
resources on homicide clearance rates. Methods We extend a previous evaluation of a …

Using data from the Area‐Identified National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), we provide
a national assessment of the impact of neighborhood immigrant concentration on whether …

Sexual homicide continues to be one of the most widely reported and sensationalised forms
of murder, attracting fascination from the public and scholars alike. Despite this continued …

Research Summary Since the RAND Corporation studies on investigations were published,
there has been a widely held belief among scholars that police agencies and investigative …

There is little research examining types of sexual homicides from a perspective that can aid
investigators before a suspect has been identified. This study examines crime scene factors …