Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 4 14

 


Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 4 14

A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES

SECOND EDITION

John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler, Editors

 

By now, we have all come to appreciate the role of the press in setting the tone for a case through its coverage and interest. The theater of competitive news coverage creates the risk of a person, not the person’s acts, as the issue. High-profile cases particularly fuel such dynamics for distortion.

Finally, consideration of the worst of crimes most frequently attaches itself to murder. Yet there are kidnappings that distinguish themselves as the worst of their ilk, just as there are robberies or even property crimes that may be particularly heinous relative to other property crimes.

Legislatures have thus codified that evil crimes exist. But without guidance, jurors struggle to distinguish qualities of a heinous crime. The inspiration for establishing standards for the worst of crimes, and guidance to jurors therefore confronts the issues of what crimes are depraved and what it is about those crimes that makes them depraved.

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