DNA and homicide clearance: What's really going on?
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Title
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DNA and homicide clearance: What's really going on?
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Identifier
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AAI3278408
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identifier
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3278408
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Creator
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Schroeder, David A., Jr.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Michael White
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Date
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2007
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Criminology and Penology
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Abstract
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Homicide clearance rates in the United States have been dropping steadily since the 1960s. The literature on homicide clearance has yet to explore exactly what affect DNA evidence is having on the homicide investigation. As such, the increased use of DNA as an investigative tool in raising homicide clearance is hardly axiomatic. The current study examined homicides committed in Manhattan, New York, within the years 1996 to 2003 for the use of DNA evidence in making an arrest. An analysis was also conducted with an eye toward how useful DNA evidence could be - indicating that, via its current usage, the creation of large DNA databases of known criminal offenders will, at best, only marginally increase the homicide clearance rate. Further, independence tests, and logistic regression analyses detail how various forms of evidence are related to clearance; evincing relationships between high rates of clearance and subjective forms of evidence, and low rates of clearance and objective forms of evidence. The implications of these relationships may point to a larger phenomenon, The Corrective Effect, which may have contributed to the drop in homicide clearance experienced nationwide.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
