Psychology and crime.

Crime and Psychology

Cyber CrIme psyChology – proposal of an offender psyChologICal profIle

cyber crime is an ever increasing threat to the security of computer systems. Break-in methods are becoming more and more sophisticated and complicated. This necessitates the use of complex security systems and makes it difficult – sometimes almost impossible – to catch offenders. This makes it necessary to search for new methods of hunting offenders, going beyond information technology methods...

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...

Money for Crime and Money from Crime: Financing crime and laundering crime proceeds

This article summarises briefly what is known internationally about how ‘organised crimes’ are financed and how this differs from the financing of licit businesses. It shows how illicit financing might and does operate, noting that a key issue is the social capital of offenders and their access to illicit finance which ironically, may be easier if controls make it harder to launder money. It th...

An Analysis of Crime and Crime Policy

About the Author Dr Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Birmingham and an internationally recognised scholar in political economy, public choice and development issues. He holds degrees from the Universities of Calcutta and Delhi, and has a PhD from Pennsylvania State University. His work has been published by the Royal Economic Society and in the European Jou...