Authors
Garima Jindal, Kratika Mishra
Abstract
Criminology is a branch that deals with different set of information like crime, criminals and their punishments. Many questions have been raised what are the factors that initiate the person to commit the crime or unlawful activities. For finding the answer of this question, the psychologists worked and suggested that the psychology or thoughts the person are responsible for the commission of crime. Although the environmental factors are also contribute in the criminal activities. This paper discussed about the crime, criminals and their psychology that affects their actions. The paper majorly concerns on the factor that inferences both the criminal behavior and its related psychological theories. The chief concern is to discuss about the mental stability connecting the health problems and the behavior of criminals that will alter the mental thinking of a person with respect to the connection towards criminal activity. The paper basically review on the different working and collection of the information conducted on the basis of relationship between psychology and criminal behavior as well a show how psychology is interlinked with the criminal behaviors. It also covers the different emotion aspects which once created the psychological imbalance and pushed person’s psychology towards criminal act i.e. both the purpose of protection and revenge. Keywords- Criminology, Psychology, Psychological theories, Criminal behavior
Introduction
Criminology is a field which is defined as the scientific study of crime including criminals and penal treatments. In one textbook of criminology, Sheley gives the definition of criminology in narrow terms “the scientific study of crime as a social phenomenon”.
Psychopathology is defined as our understanding, knowledge, and study of disorder, illness, dysfunction of mental process that control by the person. The word ‘psychopathology’ came from the Greek ‘Psyche that means mind or soul and Pathos means suffering, emotion, feeling and calamity and Logia means to speak. The word ‘logia’ is the suffixes i.e., logy that is ‘study of’ or ‘science of’. The theories of psychology impact the thinking of society about crime and delinquency. There are many psychological theories i.e., learning theories, personality theories, intelligence theories, theories of psychopathy and cognitive and developmental theories.
A powerful tools for understanding the human behavior are provided by the evolutionary psychology. In the human behavior, criminal conduct and reactions to the criminal conduct are involved. As per the evolutionary psychology, human conduct which may be criminal or other is the outcomes of the psychological mechanisms with the involvement of environmental activities that activate or spot their actions.
Criminal conducts like assault, robbery, murder and rape have the subset of human conduct. This behavior occur at serious rate in all known nations in expectable way. These types of criminal behavior are seen more in males rather than females and increased when male enter reproductive competition. For many decades, many questions have been raised as which type of people become criminal? What determinations push an individual to commit a specific type of crime? The answer of these questions are given by the psychologists. Some psychologists argued that it is because of the genetic behavior that leads to the criminal behavior while some suggested that the major factor in criminal behavior is environment in which people live
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