NCJ Number
100454
Date Published
1986
Length
828 pages
Annotation
Following a general review of typologies in criminology, this book presents a typology of criminal behavior that constructs nine behavior systems in relation to five theoretical dimensions.
Abstract
These nine criminal behavior systems include violent personal, occasional property, public order, conventional, political, occupational, corporate, organized, and professional. The theoretical dimensions considered with respect to each of these types are legal aspects of selected offenses, criminal career of the offender, group support of the criminal behavior, correspondence between criminal and legitimate behavior, and societal reaction and legal processing. Each chapter describes one of the nine criminal behavior systems and the five theoretical dimensions. Previous research and writing on each type also is reviewed, and each chapter concludes with a selected bibliography and footnotes. Index.