Criminologists have developed both crime-centered and person-centered typologies. The former sort out criminal activities into homogeneous groupings, such as residential burglary, car clouting, white-collar crime, and forcible rape. Criminologists base such types on offender-victim relations, techniques employed in the crime, and spatial or temporal features of the lawbreaking activity.
â¢ ELYSIAN (adjective). The adjective ELYSIAN has 2 senses: 1. relating to the Elysian Fields. 2. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods. Familiarity information: ELYSIAN used as an adjective is rare. ELYSIAN (adjective). The adjective ELYSIAN has 2 senses: 1. relating to the Elysian Fields. 2. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods. Familiarity information: ELYSIAN used as an adjective is rare.
The Elysian Fields were, according to Homer, located on the western edge of the Earth by the stream of Okeanos. In the time of the Greek oral poet Hesiod, Elysium would also be known as the Fortunate Isles or the Isles (or Islands) of the Blessed, located in the western ocean at the end of the earth.