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CHAPTER 3
Typologies of Crime and Criminals
Typologies of Crime and Criminals
Examples?
Examples of Comprehensive
Criminal Typologies
Clinard, Quinney, & Wildeman’s
(1994)Criminal Behavior Systems
TYPES PURPOSES
Legalistic Sanctions
Sociological Management
Psychological Treatment
Biological Understanding
Multi-trait
Scientific Typologies
Classifying events or people into types is a necessary function of
science, theory development, and professional practice.
Homogeneity/Heterogeneity
Exhaustiveness/Exclusiveness
Simplicity/Complexity
The Use of Typologies in the
Criminal Justice System
Meloy’s Sexual Homicide Typology
Meloy, J.R. (2000). The nature and dynamics of sexual homicide: An integrative review.
Aggression and Violent Behavior, 5, 1-22.
COMPULSIVE CATATHYMIC