There is a trend among teachers and practitioners of criminal investigation to consider quantitative methods of research to be far more valid and efficacious than qualitative methods. The purpose of the paper is to persuade the reader that criminal investigation is more art than science, and quantitative research should merely be ancillary to qualitative. More articles and books are needed that are not limited in scope to the quantifiable, but are based upon or address the subject of qualitative methodology.
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