NCJ Number
90741
Journal
Revija za Kriminalistiko in Kriminologijo Volume: 33 Issue: 1 Dated: (January-March 1982) Pages: 30-40
Date Published
1982
Length
11 pages
Annotation
Professional offenders are very important in offender typology. They were often dealt with in older criminological studies, while recent findings have been relatively rare in spite of the great social and technological changes calling for a reconceptualization of the previous explanation of professional crime.
Abstract
Findings of recent years do not disregard starting points for determining professionalism in crime, yet they state certain new elements which are distinguished from the old. Among them the following are particularly important: the appearance of violence, the interlacing of professional criminal activities with other activities, and the integration of professional criminals with semiprofessional and amateur offenders. What particularly calls for reexamination are new ways of looking at this kind of offender, especially from the perspectives of psychology, the sociology of work, and organizational sciences, notably where gangs and international cooperation are involved. In Yugoslavia, the issue of professional offenders is mainly derived from research on recidivism, which is not sufficient. Among Yugoslavian recidivists are mainly perpetrators of conventional crime. Tables, 52 footnotes, and 30 references are provided. (Author summary modified)