RT Article T1 Observations on the Development of Crime Categories JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology VO 34 IS 3 SP 223 OP 237 A1 Farr, Kathryn A2 Gibbons, Don C. LA English YR 1990 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1640106871 AB 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 K1 Klassifikation K1 Straftaten K1 Tattypologien K1 Klassifizierung K1 Kriminalitätsart DO 10.1177/0306624X9003400306