In 1962, the FBI reported a national homicide clearance rate of 93%. That rate dropped 29
points by 1994. This Great Decline has been studied and accepted as a real phenomenon …

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 …

This is a review of the research literature on homicide arrest clearances or homicides for
which no offender is arrested. The article describes the decline in the percent of homicides …

Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the
policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have …

Cross-national comparisons of crime and criminal justice policy have a unique place in
criminology and policy research. Simple comparisons of crime rates or imprisonment rates …

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 …

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 …

Studying hate crime clearance rates provides an opportunity to uncover the factors that
influence police effectiveness for a relatively new legal category—one that was designed …

Police agencies and researchers have devoted significant attention to understanding and
improving homicide clearance rates, which often serve as an overall barometer of police …

Previous clearance research provides an incomplete test of theories emphasizing the role of
both victim and offender status in police discretion. Using National Incident Based Reporting …