Typologies in Comparative Criminal Justice Research

This article focuses on typology construction as a focal technique in the analysis of crime and crime control systems from a world perspective. The relationship between theories and typologies is discussed. The author stresses the structure of theory when the world is defined as a system which includes sub-systems. Theoretical schemes depend on the existence of world sub-system typologies. Crime typologies and legal system typologies are needed because the formulation of a world law will be affected by the existence of typologies which clarify the similarities and dissimilarities of world legal systems.