Observations on the Development of Crime Categories

From the 1850s to the present, considerable criminological attention has focused on the development of theoretically-significant systems for classifying crime. This article reviews and attempts to evaluate a number of these efforts, and we conclude that further work on this basic task is needed. The...

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Authors: Farr, Kathryn (Author) ; Gibbons, Don C. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
Published: 1990
In: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Year: 1990, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 223-237
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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Keywords:
Klassifikation
Straftaten
Tattypologien
Klassifizierung
Kriminalitätsart
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Summary:From the 1850s to the present, considerable criminological attention has focused on the development of theoretically-significant systems for classifying crime. This article reviews and attempts to evaluate a number of these efforts, and we conclude that further work on this basic task is needed. The latter part of the article explicates a conceptualfoundation for a crime pattern classification system, and offers a preliminary taxonomy of crime
ISSN:0306-624X
DOI:10.1177/0306624X9003400306