In this study we apply the versatile/specialist offender debate to the research of intimate
partner violence. We propose the existence of two types of imprisoned male batterers: the …

Research on male batterers has found that in some cases of severe intimate partner
violence (IPV) against women, male aggressors were also generally violent beyond the …

Recidivism risk assessment tools have been utilized for decades. Although their
implementation and use have the potential to touch nearly every aspect of the correctional …

In this study, survival analysis is used to examine time to rearrest for both domestic violence
and nondomestic violence crimes among a cohort of domestic violence offenders (N= 286) …

Youth violence is a costly social problem. This study compared the risk and needs of
nonviolent youth offenders, with those who had committed violent offenses only (violent …

The versatility/specialization debate in criminology has important theoretical, research, and
juvenile/criminal justice ramifications. Although offenders are mostly versatile, there is …

Drug use is endemic within offender populations and, as a result, considerable
heterogeneity can be found in drug-related crime. Expertise in drug-related offending covers …

Although studies have established that homicide offenders are clearly well versed in the
criminal world, there is limited knowledge of the specific types of offenses they engage in …

Effort to classify criminals into “types” has a lengthy history within the field of Criminology
(Lombroso, 1876; Wolfgang, Figlio, and Sellin, 1972). Indeed, a key part of enduring …

The qualitative analysis of individual cases has a prominent place in the development of
criminological theory, yet progression in the scientific study of crime has largely been viewed …