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 …

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 …

The available scientific evidence on the value of detectives in clearing crimes generally
suggests that most crimes are solved through the random circumstances of crime scenes …

Generalized Linear Models for Categorical and Continuous Limited Dependent Variables is
designed for graduate students and researchers in the behavioral, social, health, and …

This study seeks to examine the practices of law enforcement agencies in attempting to
solve cases of homicide. Five key dimensions, as determined from the extant literature, are …

At present, the average homicide clearance rate in the United States is approximately 65%,
down roughly 15% from the mid-1970s. This research seeks to inform how police can best …

This study uses data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to explore
the impact of model selection on determining the association of victim-level and incident …

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 …

Objectives This paper investigates the influence of case characteristics and investigative
resources on homicide clearance rates. Methods We extend a previous evaluation of a …