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Theories of Criminal Behaviour : Report

   

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ContentsIntroduction................................................................................................................................2Theories of criminal behaviour..................................................................................................2Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6References..................................................................................................................................82 | P a g e
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Introduction The crime has been a part of civilised society since the dawn of civilization and there hadbeen justice systems to prevent crime from destroying the order and balance of the society.However, the crime and criminal behaviour has not been given much importance until the lastcentury when the criminology became popular as not only a means to stop crime but analysethe reasons behind each crime and criminal behaviour. The question that haunts most of thecriminologists is the “what makes a person commit crimes? Why are some more prone tocriminal behaviour than others?” there have been various approaches to define the cause ofcriminal behaviour and the approaches are very different from one another so the theories areas varied as they can be and do not give definitive answers to the questions asked (Walters,2006). The study is often based on different real life events recorded by justice system sothere is credence to all of the approaches but nothing concrete has been proven to set oneapproach towards criminal behaviour over the others. The criminology is the most important factor in the society to prevent chaos from disruptingthe order and thus these approaches to define the reasons behind criminal behaviour acts as acomplement to the criminal justice system that is more of a reactive action where theapproaches that are supported by criminology are more pro active (Prins, 2015). The differentmodels that are used to define the causes of criminal behaviour are the psychological modelthe sociological model and the biological model. All three of these models have theirfollowers but there is vast scope of argument both in favour and against the models.Therefore, in this essay the criminological aspect of the reasons behind a crime are analysedand their validity is given by examples of contemporary situations. Theories of criminal behaviourThe theories of criminal behaviour are vast and over the last century, the differentcriminologists have cited many. However, there is many similarities and dissimilaritiesbetween the models of criminal behaviour and many have been discarded in favour of morelogical and modern concepts that can be supported by the research done on the general andcriminal population. The most popular theories are taken in this case which are thepsychological, sociological and biological aspect of the criminal behaviour is given morecredence over the other factors that criminal behaviour depends on. The major factors of3 | P a g e
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