A unit of the FBI responsible for the analysis of serial violent and sexual crimes, collecting details of unsolved and solved cases from agencies nationwide so investigators can search for links between crimes that might otherwise go unrecognized when an offender crosses jurisdictional lines. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Institution TypeSourced to the subject's own accountNational case-linkage database and analysis unit, operated within the FBI. 1 Founded YearSourced to the subject's own accountPierce Brooks, a Los Angeles homicide detective who had proposed a national violent-crime database since the 1950s, was appointed ViCAP's first director; he has no live entity in this atlas yet, so his advocacy is recorded here rather than as a founded-by edge. HeadquartersSourced to the subject's own accountQuantico, Virginia, United States 1 Institution Type
Institution Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own accountInvestigative Agency / Bureau 1 Connections
Associated With
ViCAP is a unit of the FBI.
Source Wikipedia: Violent Criminal Apprehension Program
Robert Ressler, a founding FBI Behavioral Science Unit profiler, worked alongside ViCAP in its early years as part of the FBI's behavioral analysis effort.
Source Wikipedia: Behavioral Science Unit
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Violent Criminal Apprehension Program
Function description
Cases fitting these categories can be entered into the system by law enforcement officials and compared to other cases in an attempt to correlate and match possible connections.
Lead section
ViCAP is a unit of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) responsible for the analysis of serial violent and sexual crimes.
History section
ViCAP was created in 1985 by the FBI and based in Quantico, Virginia.
- Associated With: Federal Bureau of Investigation
View the SourceWikipedia: Behavioral Science Unit
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