RT Article
T1 Clearing homicides: role of organizational, case, and investigative dimensions
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 18
IS 3
SP 553
OP 600
A1 Wellford, Charles F.
A2 Lum, Cynthia
A2 Scott, Thomas
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1681039737
AB Since the RAND Corporation studies on investigations were published, there has been a widely held belief among scholars that police agencies and investigative effort matter little to solving crimes. A few researchers have recently challenged this belief, however, producing results that show that investigative effort does play a role in clearing crimes. In this study, we replicate the methodological approach of the RAND studies and use multiagency, multimethod, detailed case files, as well as organizational analysis, to examine the association among investigative effort, case features, organizational factors, and the clearance of homicide cases. The results show that variation between the homicide clearances in agencies can be explained by case attributes, investigative practices, and organizational differences. Future research should be aimed at building on these results using a similar design with a larger number of agencies.
K1 Evidence-based policing
K1 Homicide clearances
K1 |sIInvestigations
K1 Role of police
K1 RAND studies
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12449