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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 17 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   In the late 1980s, the agents from the Investigative Support Unit at the FBI Academy joined with the Behavioral Science Unit to begin working on a crime classification manual, using as a guide the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR, 2006) of the American Psychiatric Association. Work groups were assigned to the major crime categories of murder, arson, and sexual assault. An advisory committee representing federal and private associations was formed.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 4 17 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 Given this challenge, the Depravity Standard methodology committed to accomplish the following in order to establish a standard that would unfailingly contribute to justice: •     Can the Depravity Standard be inclusive, to be applicable to the range of all possible crimes? •     Can the Standard emphasize evidence over impressionism?   •     Can its items ensure that such determinations are color, diagnosis, race, religion, nationality, and socioeconomically blind? •     Can its items control for cultural distinctions? •     Can the Standard be neither pro-prosecution nor pro- defense? •     Can its items incorporate the range of values of ...