Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour

Psychological Explanations of Criminal
Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Types of crime committed by Criminals.....................................................................................1
Psychiatric Reasons of Criminal Behaviour................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Criminal behaviour of a person is known as conduct of an offender that leads the person
to unlawful activity. This is not only about a single issue this is complex concept to understand
with a single mindset. There are different things can lead a person to the psychiatric illness or
criminal and offensive action. There are different fields of psychology are concerned with the
criminal behaviour of the people. The criminology is a field of psychology that is all about the
criminal behaviour of people. The legal systems are more concerned with the the issues that are
leading the people to commit the criminal offence (Stinson, Quinn and Levenson, 2016). There
are purpose is to get more knowledge of psychiatric illness and criminal behaviour to reduce
develop better situations to reduce the crime rate in country. The purpose of this study is to
develop understanding theta can help the legal system to reduce the tendency of people to
commit crime. Various type of criminal acts are mentioned in study to understand the psychiatric
illness that leads the person to the criminal behaviour. This study is briefly describing the
concept of criminal behaviour and various reasons that lead a person to certain offensive
behaviour. Various theories of criminal behaviour also will be explained in report to provide
better understanding about the criminal behaviour of people.
MAIN BODY
Types of crime committed by Criminals
On daily basis different criminal cases are handled by criminal courts. Continuously the
criminal cases are increasing around world and there are some actions are need to be taken in
order to reduce the crime rate in country and international level. In some cases legal authorities
involves Psychiatrists in case to better understand the criminal behaviour of the person. The role
of psychology is important to understand the mentality of person who is committing crime on the
frequent basis. There are different psychological theories that can be used to understand the
behaviour of person to understand the case properly. A criminal offence can be consider as any
kind of antisocial act and these acts are generally illegal in perspective of court. These
psychological theories can be used to set some standards in legal procedures to develop better
legal system in country. There are different act are consider as personal crime which are
committed by person in influence of something or someone. An act of individual in which a
person psychologically or physically harms another person, is considered as personal crime
(Altintas and Bilici, 2018). This personal crimes are considered in two categories which are
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homicides and violent crimes. When a person harms other person and that harm is severe enough
to cause death then the person is charged with different level of criminal charges. For example in
homicides crimes, criminals are charged with first degree murder, vehicular homicide or
voluntary manslaughter.
The other category of personal crime is violent crimes that includes- arson, assault and
battery, child abuse, domestic abuse, kidnapping, rape and statutory. Assault and battery is
considered as the intentional act cause other person in apprehension of immediate harm. The
purpose of this activity is to cause fear in other person. This activity can not be consider as
accident. The mind set of person in this situation can be analysed to implement different
practices that can reduce the cases like this. The battery is completely different from assault. In
case of battery those conditions are considered which are including offensive touching other
people without their consent. Battery is actually considered as act of harming other (Mohler and
Earls, 2018). The offensive touching is required enough to charge a person with charges of
battery.
The case of arson is defined as the condition where the person wilfully and maliciously
burn the property of other person. This is considered as violent crime and considered as felony.
Child abuse is also considered as personal crime. There are many adverse things can influence a
person to commit such crime as child abuse in which they commit harm against child. The
potential abusers in most of the cases are relative, parents, caretaker and coaches of child. This is
considered as one of the most awful act in personal crime. Cause of different issues people act
violently I their house and this leads to domestic violence. Both men and women could be victim
in this scenario. In domestic violence activities are like threatening and harming family behind
closed doors. Kidnapping is also a serious crime that is considered as personal crime. The
purposes of these cases are different. Some times these cases occur due to monetary issue and
sometimes that issues behind this are related to mental illness and revenge. Rape is a crime that s
considered as unwanted sexual intercourse which is accomplished with force and threatening.
These are some cases which are mainly considered as act of violence that are influenced by
different internal and external factors.
Psychiatric Reasons of Criminal Behaviour
Most of time the crime committed by a person is cause of different factors that are related
to the personal, professional and social life. These are main factor which are need to be studied
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