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Crime is extremely multiform. It comprises a wide variety of behavior. Every man may attach to his behavior a strictly personal significance. We can also bring several kinds of behavior together under a few general terms, each of which will cover a variety of forms and nuances of behavior. The term theft, for example, covers the British train robbery in 1963 as well as stealing a nickel’s worth of putty.
‘Classification and description are really the same process... An examination of the nature of description will show that description itself is based on or embodies hypotheses... any decision as to which classification scheme to adopt is itself a hypothesis...’
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‘The umbrella of the term crime’.
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Hoefnagels, G.P. (1973). Multiformity and Classifications. In: The Other Side of Criminology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4495-9_5
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