Analysis of connection between criminal behavior and psychological traits of perpetrators of criminal offences

Psychological factors underlying criminal behavior.

Early Psychological Theorizing Regarding Criminal Behavior FREUD’S MODEL OF THE PSYCHE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

Psychosocial Theories: Individual Traits and Criminal Behavior

L ittle Jimmy Caine, a pug-nosed third-generation Irish American, is an emotionless, guiltless, walking id, all 5’ 5” and 130 pounds of him. By the time he was 26, Jimmy had accumulated one of the worst criminal records the police in Toledo, Ohio, had ever seen: burglary, aggravated assault, robbery, rape—name it, Jimmy had probably done it. This little tearaway had been arrested for the brutal...

Substantive criminal analysis of sexual abuse of children and adolescents

The Child and Adolescent Protection Act approved in 1399 have criminalized many sexually abusive acts against children and adolescents by using the term “sexual abuse” for the first time. Sexual abuse can be divided into two general categories: first, abuses in which the child or adolescent is the main target of perpetrator to satisfy his sexual needs, second, using child or adolescent as a mea...

Self-reported computer criminal behavior: A psychological analysis

The current research study replicated a study by Rogers et al. (Rogers M, Smoak ND, Liu J. Self-reported criminal computer behavior: a big-5, moral choice and manipulative exploitive behavior analysis. Deviant Behavior 2006;27:1–24) and examined the psychological characteristics, moral choice, and exploitive manipulative behaviors of self-reported computer criminals and non-computer criminals. ...