[yathink103]

:confused: What are crime typologies useful for understanding violent crime patterns? Would they be as useful for understanding property crime patterns? If yes, why? If not, why not?

[Fr_Chuck]

Great questions, what do you think, tell us and we can give you our opinion of it.

[yathink103]

Crime Typologies use sets of defined characteristics such as legal categories, offender motivation, victim behavior, and certain situations of the criminal event (Schmalleger, 2006). I believe crime typologies are useful for understanding violent crime patterns because there is either one variable or many variables taken into consideration when evaluating and determining patterns for violent crimes. Crime typologies help provide understanding of crime patterns by looking at all aspects of violent crimes such as; focusing on the offender, the motivation of the offender and the prior history of the offender. But these typologies also provide insight into the victim's and this angle addresses the victim but also whether the victim may have helped aid the offender or give the offender greater opportunity to commit a violent crime.
I do believe crime typologies would be useful for understanding property crime patterns because an offender who only commits property crimes can be addressed. Although, each offender may have different reasons for committing a property crime; opportunity, money, or drug abuse these offenders can still be evaluated to help determine the crime patterns for property crimes. Victim-offender relationships can also be used to help determine typologies for those who commit property crimes.
References
Schmalleger, F. (2006). Criminology today. (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-170210-6.

[Fr_Chuck]

How do you make a difference between offender behvior, motivation and situations from profiling,

And how does this info help in preventing crime, assuming in the US, you are considered innocent unless proven guilty and/or you can not arrest or even suspect someone for merely meeting certain patterns.

*** not disagreeing, not even saying these are my opinons, but how do you address those in this idea.

****** by the way this is a great question.

[yathink103]

Yes all are innocent until proven guilty. I just feel that the Crime Typologies are very useful in violent crime patterns and think the same ideas would be useful to help determine the crime patterns for property crimes. What are yout thoughts
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