CLASSIFICATIONS OF CRIMINAL

• Types of Criminals


  • Acute Criminals
  • Chronic Criminals
  • Neurotic Criminals
  • Normal Criminals
• Acute Criminals


  Violate criminal law because of the impulse of the moment, fit of passion or anger or spell of extreme jealousy
• Chronic Criminals


  Act with deliberate thinking
• Neurotic Criminals


  Actions arise from intra psychic conflict
• Normal Criminals


  Psychic organization resembles that of normal individuals except that he himself with criminal prototype
• Criminality


  Caused by an organic pathological (compulsive) process
• Types of Ordinary Criminals

  • Engage only on conventional crimes which require limited skill
• Organized Criminals


  Have a high degree of organization to enable them to commit crimes without being detected - large scale business
• Professional Criminals


  Highly skilled and able to obtain considerable amount of money without being detected
• ACCIDENTAL CRIMINALS - those who commit criminal acts as a result of unanticipated circumstances. SITUATIONAL CRIMINALS + those who are actually not criminals but are constantly in trouble with legal authorities. ACTIVE aggressive those who commit crime in an impulsive manner usually due to the aggressive behavior of the offender PASSIVE inadequate those who commit crimes because they are pushed to it by inducement, by rewards of promise without considering its consequence
• Burglary - breaking into someone else's home or building with intent to commit an offense inside.