Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 27
Crime
Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 27
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
Urban
Void
An
analysis of VI CAP submissions revealed that the cities and urban areas that
were recording large numbers of homicides were not submitting the cases to the
national database. No one could explain why this was the case. The assumption
that VI CAP misconceptions were prevalent—for example, only unsolved cases were
wanted for the national database—did not provide an adequate explanation. Case
closure rates in large cities were less than 100 percent, suggesting that even
if law enforcement agencies did not understand which cases could be forwarded,
many more cases should be arriving for the national database.

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