The Case to Review Murder Investigations

Jones, Dean; Grieve, John; Milne, Rebecca

doi:10.1093/police/pan053

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“…Tunnel vision is a well-known concept both within the English and Dutch criminal justice system and has been recognised as a risk factor in investigations. Within England, miscarriages of justice have received a lot of publicity since the early 1980s (Jones et al 2008). After the Byford inquiry of the Yorkshire Ripper murders (Byford 1982), and the MacPherson report in 1999, multiple recommendations have been implemented within the investigations of murder cases to prevent biased decisionmaking (ACPO 2006, Jones et al 2008.…”

Section: Precautions Taken To Prevent Tunnel Visionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The use of rapid identification information at the crime scene; similarities and differences between English and Dutch CSIs

Gruijter

Poot

2018

Policing and Society

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Section: Precautions Taken To Prevent Tunnel Visionmentioning

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The use of rapid identification information at the crime scene; similarities and differences between English and Dutch CSIs

Gruijter

Poot

2018

Policing and Society

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“…Central to the SIO's decision‐making is what Jones, Grieve, and Milne () referred to as ‘investigative thinking’, that is, the generation of hypotheses to suggest possible explanations for a group of factors either accepted as a basis for further verification or accepted as probably true. A BIA can assist in hypotheses generation and prioritisation.…”

Section: Behavioural Investigative Advicementioning

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Behavioural Investigative Advice: Assistance to Investigative Decision‐making in Difficult‐to‐detect Murder

Cole¹,

Brown

2013

Journal Invest Psychology

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This paper considers the role of a Behavioural Investigative Adviser (BIA) in assisting with the decision-making of a Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) in difficult-to-detect murder investigations. It outlines the need for transparent evidence-based decision-making from both the SIO and the BIA. The paper then details a piece of relevant, applied research that can assist in this end. The research utilised a pragmatic psychology approach to analyse 312 detected murder cases from the Serious Crime Analysis Section database. Some significant patterns relating what is known about the offence at different stages of an investigation and inferences regarding the offender were found, indicating that certain offence information can lead to some reliable predictions and these can be refined as more information becomes available. However, the findings also indicate that base rate frequencies and a 'best-guess' methodology may be as, if not more, useful than more complex statistical techniques when providing advice to investigations.

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“…The need to review 'live' ongoing major crime investigations has already been established (Nicol et al 2004, Jones et al 2008). For long-term, unsolved major crimes the need for, and benefits of, such reviews is less clearly defined.…”

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Motivations, money and modern policing: accounting for cold case reviews in an age of austerity

Allsop

2013

Policing and Society

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Over the past two decades 'cold case review conferences' have become an established component of how police forces respond to long-term unsolved major crimes. This article examines the place of cold case major crime reviews in UK policing in an age of austerity. In particular, it focuses on examining how police justify expending resource on these reviews, considering why particular motivations have been advanced and in turn what these reveal about modern policing. Informed by empirical data collected during an eight-month ethnographic study of a Major Crime Review Team and interviews with key actors involved in managing and conducting cold case reviews, the article suggests a typology of motives used to justify the continued investment in reviewing historic unsolved major crimes. The discussion concludes by considering what these motivations and their invocation reveal about the current policing practice.

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The Case to Review Murder Investigations

Cited by 23 publications

References 1 publication

The use of rapid identification information at the crime scene; similarities and differences between English and Dutch CSIs

The use of rapid identification information at the crime scene; similarities and differences between English and Dutch CSIs

Behavioural Investigative Advice: Assistance to Investigative Decision‐making in Difficult‐to‐detect Murder

Motivations, money and modern policing: accounting for cold case reviews in an age of austerity

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