Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 4 2
Crime
Classification Manual Part I Chapter 4 2
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
To
be involved in the justice system is to be humbled by one’s lilliputian role in
a process that extends well beyond a suspect’s arrest. Is justice served merely
when a suspect is taken into custody? What if a manslaughterer is charged as a
murderer? What if a cold-blooded killer is prosecuted as a battered woman? Is
that justice? Obviously not.
Nor
is it justice to presume that even among all types of offenders, each is as
blameworthy as the next. Each of us who imparts our experiences in this book
viscerally recognizes that crimes distinguish themselves for their severity as
well. Experience in murder, sexual assault, even property crimes imbues one
with an appreciation that some crimes separate themselves from others as the
worst of the worst.
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