- Situational offender
In
criminology the term situational offender is used in several meanings, their common denominator being nontypical character of theoffense in question for the person according to some criteria.General criminology
Following the classical study of
Martin R. Haskell andLewis Yablonsky "Criminology - Crime and Criminality" (1974), a situationaloffender , as opposed to a careercriminal , is a person who committed a crime under certain circumstances, but normally is not inclined to commit crimes and is unlikely to repeat the offense. [Todd R. Clear, George F. Cole, Michael D. Reisig (2005) "American Corrections", ISBN 0534646522 [http://books.google.com/books?id=PJwa3QuttuYC&pg=PA131&dq=%22situational+offender%22&sig=ACfU3U3r4eT4S3uAOd8v3zCMo9cT1BhtUA#PPA131,M1 p.131] ]ex crimes
In
sex crime s, a situationalsex offender as the one whose offense is associated withsituational sexual behavior , i.e., sexual behavior different from the person's usual habits. This term is in an opposition to the preferential offender, whose offense is associated with the person's preferential behavior. For example, a preferentialchild molester is exclusively involved with children, whereas the situational ones are normally engaged in sexual behavior within theirpeer group . [Seth L. Goldstein (1998) "The Sexual Exploitation of Children", ISBN 0849381541 [http://books.google.com/books?id=tvNmUcLj2pAC&pg=PA93&vq=%22situational+offender%22&dq=%22situational+offender+is%22&source=gbs_search_s&sig=ACfU3U1oq7RvEy9IlrNwZmBb_xeoxU1omg#PPA96,M1 p. 96] ]References
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