Question

I have to watch a video on Youtube and then 'develop and defend a typology' based on that, and write a post. What are different types of Offender typologies??

Answer 1

There are FOUR formal categories of Offender Typology:

1. Psychological Typology: Psychiatrist Richard Jenkins and sociologist Lester Hewitt divided these into two groups: pseudosocial boys and unsocialized aggressive youths. The first were psychologically normal and were responding to antisocial conditions in their locality, while the others were asocial and violent juveniles who had suffered parental rejection. Marguerite Warren found that young offenders were generally found in different types of the low levels of maturity. Eg, some are easily led by mates into misdeeds and others have difficulty conforming to demands of authoritative figures.

2. Inmate Social Role Typology: Inmates of juvenile correctional institutions and adult facilities have sometimes been the basis of offender typologies. Clarence Schrag reported that male prisoners are labeled in inmate slang according to the nature of their relationships with fellow prisoners. The criminal records and other characteristics of prisoners vary in the inmate role system.

3. Sociological Typology: Sociological criminologists have attempted to develop offender typologies that assign persons who engage in similar offenses to particular criminal behavior systems, role careers, and/or criminal behavior patterns. Typological efforts have been taken to find offender groups whose members share similar social background and causal experiences i.e., criminologists have tried to identify sociological typographies.

4. Female Offenders: An assumption is that most female offenders come to the attention of the police, either because of minor misbehavior or sexual promiscuity. A common presumption is that many adult women offenders are minor thieves while others have been involved in domestic violence, often at their common law or legal spouses. Kathleen Daly has listed female lawbreakers into several types, going by the kinds of crimes they have committed along with their relationship with spouses, boyfriends, other associates, etc.

The sub-categories of these Typologies are open to research and are informal.