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CRITICALLY ANALYSE
TABLE OF CONTENTSTITLE: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE AND BIOLOGICAL THEORYAFFECTING MURDER.................................................................................................................1INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
TITLE: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE AND BIOLOGICALTHEORY AFFECTING MURDERINTRODUCTIONCrime is an offence or unlawful act committed by a person or group of individuals thatresults in condemnation and punishment generally in from of fine or imprisonment. This is anunlawful act punishable by law (Michalowski, 2016). Crimes do not happen suddenly once in awhile and it requires a motive and reason for commitment (Robert, 2018). A criminal getsprovoked by any fact that can be mental position or the physical need. One of them main reasonbehind commission of crime is physiological factor (Drawve and Walker, 2018). The office ofnational statistics had justified that number of crimes related to murder in England and Wales hasreached 5 million mark on annual aspect over 10 years and raised by 13% (Crime rises by 13%,2019). Murder this one of the most serious crime of all and this offence result in the death ofperson who is being attacked by the offender (Acland, 2018). The person report presents thepsychological factors that influence a person to committee as murder. These factors can becognitive, social, biological, developmental etc (TKelsen, 2017). In this report focus is kept onCognitive and biological psychology of Murder with presenting critical evaluation of these twofactors. MAIN BODYMURDER: As per the views of the author a murder is defined as unlawful killing of another personwithout any valid justification or excuse (Thomas, Connor and Scott, 2018). This is differentfrom manslaughter and assault. A murder is an act in which a person is killed by another withoutany significant reason that can be presented as legal one. As killing someone out of personal rageis not justifiable under law hence is a criminal offence (Consciousness and Cognition:Fragments of Mind and Brain, 2018). On the other hand author stated that this criminal actbeing persuaded by psychological or sociological factors (Wertz and et.al., 2018). Thepsychology behind murder is not restricted to one or two factors rather this has got a wider scopewhich can be divided as cognitive, biological, social, developmental and individual difference.COGNITIVE PHYSIOLOGY AND MURDER:1
The writer presented in his study the psychology of a person and the state of mind whichdefined how a person thinks (Vallabhajosula, 2015). This is related with memory, span andreasoning ability of an individual. Basically this means that how people think and defines thereason behind an act and get to a conclusion along with retaining meaningful information.Conversely, the authors defined that for commitment of murder a person also do the same meth,which can be either metal satisfaction or monetary benefits, providing justification to oneself asto why he/she is committing such an offence or giving oneself ethical and moral implication ofbeing human (Butler Lee and Senior, 2017). The cognition psychology in criminology deals withdetermining the mental statues of a person and when he/she was thinking before, after and at thetime of killing some other person.COGNITIVE THEORY IN CRIMEAccording to author, cognitive is elaborated as capability for processing information(Akers, 2017). Cognition has to perform with capability for learning information inunderstandable, quick and memorized information which is pertained. The cognitive theories ofcrime are undertaken in psychological theories of behaviour of criminal as they are veryimportant for getting information about presence of multiple theories as an attempt forexplaining criminal behaviour. However, author has explained this with context of desperationfor understanding about why people commit crimes has often been studied with sociologists andpsychologists along with analysis and to develop explanations about existence of this behaviour(Welsh, Zimmerman and Zane, 2018). Yet, it has been stated that cognitive theory is referred asone of psychological theory with reference to criminal behaviour (Farrington, 2017). This theoryof crime provides explanation about criminal behaviour as defect with context or moral thinking,mental development along with thought process.As per views of author, cognitive theory helps in understanding about personality ofindividual and level of intelligence associated with delinquency (Lowry, Zhang and Wu, 2017).As these theories are highly broad which is mainly improved as other factors. Moreover, inaccordance with the views of author Cognitive theories laid special emphasis on perceivingthroughout the world along with factors which influence mental development such as parentalmodelling, intelligence, personality and family upbringing (Simpson and Paternoster, 2017).These theories provide help for explaining about development of thought process in moralaspect. 2
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