Research Summary We conducted face‐to‐face interviews with 50 young Black men,
residents of high‐crime neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx, individuals who had …

Purpose Detective work is a mainstay of modern law enforcement, but its effectiveness has
been much less evaluated than patrol work. To explore what is known about effective …

Re-offense risk is considered in decision-making at many stages of the criminal justice
system, from pre-trial, to sentencing, to parole. To aid decision-makers in their assessments …

Purpose The study examines whether the use of forensic awareness strategies increases
the chance of avoiding police detection in sexual homicide. Methods Logistic and negative …

Research Summary Since the RAND Corporation studies on investigations were published,
there has been a widely held belief among scholars that police agencies and investigative …

This study provides an overview of homicide clearance in four West European countries:
Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Using data from the European Homicide …

When applied to homicide clearance by arrest, the victim-devaluing perspective posits that
police favor higher—social status victims by allocating greater investigative effort to their …

This systematic review examined the evidence on factors influencing the flow of homicide,
from suspicious death to imprisonment. Bibliographic databases and thesis portals were …

Purpose Scholars suggest that clearance rates reflect (a) the solvability of cases
(Gottfredson & Hindelang, 1979; Roberts, 2007), and/or (b) the populations that the police …

Abstract Research Summary As a policy response to historically strained police–minority
community relations, police diversification is hoped to improve policing outcomes in minority …