Offender Typologies And Classification Of Sex Crimes

Introduction Sex crimes can be broken down into several categories: rape and sexual battery offenses, sexual assault, child sexual abuse, incest offenses, indecent exposure and public indecency, statutory rape, and internet and technology-related offenses. Within these offender types, there are offender typologies and classifications. Some offenders have specializations when committing crime and others may experience variance.

Offense specialization is defined as a key element in the career criminal paradigm in that it is the tendency to repeat the same type of offense in successive arrests. It is thought that these offenders become proficient in one crime and they commit them exclusively. Offense versatility is defined as when an offender commits a range of offenses, it is found that persistent offenders are versatile (Harris, 2009). This is important because often

They define six categories of offenders of which only three are nonviolent. The heterosexual nurturer will victimize younger males from the age of 12 years old. These offenders are found to be less criminal than other groups of offenders because they are less likely to re-offend. This group is compared to the teacher/lover group that was previously mentioned. The noncriminal homosexual offenders’ group has a gender preference and has committed offenses against younger girls and women. Like the previous group, they are less criminal in that they will have fewer arrests on their record. The female sexual predators’ group was found to have been re-arrested for a different offense. This group also has a clear gender preference for younger males under the age of 11 (Mancini, 2021, p. 29). None of these groups had the specification that the offender had forced behavior or was aggressive in any way. Despite not engaging in violence these acts are still