Canadian Association Violent Crime Analysts

History of CAVCA

The Association was conceived as the development of ViCLAS progressed.

As the national use of ViCLAS increases and the National database expands, criminal analysts will be used increasingly to help investigators understand and combat violent crimes.

ViCLAS was intended as a tool to more speedily identify suspects, more accurately identify series of violence and to link suspects with groups of crimes which contain characteristics common to the suspects' identified behaviours.

From a deeper level of analysis, Profilers (using Criminal Investigative Analysis)assist investigators by providing details to direct their efforts to identify suspects by parts of their personality revealed in the evidence of their crime(s). New methods such as geographic profiling are also being developed and refined through the extended use of technology.