Talk:Situational offender

2006 comment

oooh, this is a bit messy isn't it? That last paragraph needs more blending into the rest of the article to get NPOV. It is almost saying "situational offender"? BAH! Complete nonsense. Hardly what you'd want in a wikipedia article... 58.107.87.183 07:06, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Just a couple of paragraphs, but manages to be a tangle of competing POVs! DanB†DanD 18:06, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't think this is a competing POVs situation. It is that this article is trying to explain that there are two different theories or classification schemes used in different areas of criminology about what constitutes a situational offender. In the case of the general criminal, the theory posits that someone commits crime because of the situation they find themselves in, such as the poor starving person who steals food as they are hungry and cannot afford to by it. In the case of [child] sex offenders, the theory classifies sex offenders based on whether the offending arose from the situation that the offenders had an opportunity to offend or if it arose from a preferential desire to offend in a particular way. I think the article rightly distinguishes between the two cases, and there might well be a case for having two or more articles if there are multiple definitions. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 02:30, 3 June 2024 (UTC)