Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 35
Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 35
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
THE
CHANGE
The Form
The
easiest part of the change process involved the VI CAP data collection
instrument. The number of questions on the form was reduced to 95. For more
than two years, VI CAP personnel sifted through the database to learn which
data were most probative and offered the best possibility of suggesting
relationships between or among cases. Frequently reported attributes were made
part of the form, and infrequently used attributes were discarded. The form
revision was very much like that undertaken by the VI CAP staff in 1986 when
the variables and attributes of the comprehensive form that Pierce Brooks had
initiated were trimmed.
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