Identify and describe the four typologies of violent offenders. How would efforts to reduce violence vary for each of these typologies?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Culturally violent offenders are individuals who live in subcultures (cultures within a culture) in which violence is an acceptable problem-solving mechanism. The “subculture of violence” thesis, to be explored shortly, is used as a means of explaining the greater prevalence of violent crime among low-income minorities from slum environments of large central cities.
Criminally violent offenders use violence as a means of accomplishing a criminal act, such as robbery. Mental illness or brain damage characterizes pathologically violent offenders. (Discussions later in this chapter focusing on psychiatry and the law and on psychopathy will further elaborate on the mentally disturbed violent criminal.)
Finally, situationally violent offenders commit acts of violence on rare occasions, often under provocation, such as in domestic disputes that get out of hand. These incidents are frequently described as “crimes of passion,” in which the individual temporarily loses control and often expresses regret for the actions later. While the media focuses on the criminally and pathologically violent offender, the culturally and situationally violent offenders are the most common.