Abstract
Professors Gibbons and Garrity from a research of the literature postulate a criminal typology of 14 types, comprising eight property offender types and six personal offender types. They have published material on the eight property offender types: Professional Thief, Professional Heavy, Non-Professional Property Offender, Auto ThiefJoyrider, Naive Check Forger, White Collar Criminal, Embezzler, and the Professional Fringe Violator.1 Their typology is based on the assumption that the real world of criminal behavior is comprised of a variety of social roles or stable behavior and that these role patterns are differentiated along two major dimensions: selfdefinition and attitudes, and offense behavior. Offenders who have certain kinds of attitudes and self-definitions in common also commit offenses of some specific kind. Groups of criminals can be identified who show similar self-definitions and
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