Abstract
This study examines the relationships between incident solvability, resources and crime detection. It involves critical examination of existing studies, and the development of solvability and resourcing concepts and a resourcing-solvability theoretical model. The application of resources to the investigation of solvable incidents explains detection levels and the origins of solvability lie in offender characteristics and environments, which affect profiles of solvable offences across jurisdictions. Solvability varies between different sorts of crime and within the same offence types. It limits crime detection and determines the amount of resources needed to clear an offence. Resources enable the potential for detection due to solvability to be realised. The detection of low and medium solvability offences and the benefits of larger amount of resources being directed at highly solvable offences are at odds with prior research, while levels of offence solvability and potential detections have been under-estimated.
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