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Crime Classification Manual

FBI reference on investigating crime

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Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes (1992) is a text on the classification of violent crimes by John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler.

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The publication is a result of a project by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.

A second edition of the book was published in 2006, and added 155 pages of new information and research.

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