Understanding Criminal Behavior and Criminological Theories

Understanding Criminal Behavior

Introduction
Crime is an inevitable part of the human nature that is inescapable and it is very hard to find out
a specific cause of crime. Moreover, crime is a much complex phenomenon that readily changes
over various culture and time. Apart from that, crime also focuses on the behaviour of the
attorneys, judges, police, victims etc. and the every other actions that take place within the
criminal justice system. Almost everything of what is done regarding the criminal justice is
explained by the criminological theory and helps us in understanding the running of the criminal
justice system and the major and minor players within the system. Here we will give a glance on
some of the incidents that correlates to the theories of criminology.
Discussion
For the understanding of the context why people commit a crime is of crucial importance so as to
be able to prevent such sort of deeds in the near future. Here we will at the first place consider
the case of naked swordsman attack on the churchgoers on November 28, 1999. In this case, a
man indiscriminately attacked the churchgoers with a a 3 ft (91 cm) Samurai sword and critically
injured four of the parishioners. This relates much to the psychological approaches of criminal
behaviour that led the 26-year old man to commit such a crime out of depression regarding the
several incidents that he had faced since his childhood regarding sexual abuse by his family
friend, losing his parents. Gottfredson have expressed that ‘Modern control theories in
criminology have their roots in systematic efforts to discover and then to explain the facts about
crime’ (85-86). Personality of human being is the major factor of motivation at every situation
and drives the behaviour of an individual. In such a situation, the crime committed by the
criminal results from the inappropriate or abnormal mental condition of the criminal. Some