ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we look at different “types” of justice-involved persons. The word “type” is used with some hesitation because the word conveys the idea of clearly defined categories with little or no overlap. However, many who violate the law do not neatly fit into any one category. In fact, very few of them specialize in only one type of crime. Sexual offenders commit nonsexual crimes, and male batterers assault others who are unrelated to them. Nevertheless, many justice-involved persons do show a preference for certain antisocial acts that allow us to make rough categorizations.
The first category reviewed in the chapter is intimate partner violence (IPV), followed by the mentally disordered, and ending with the sexual offender. The themes across the three subtypes is that the Central Eight risk/need factors are common to them all and that RNR-based interventions work; getting tough does not.
