Criminal psychology

Criminal psychology is a general term for various psychological activities or psychological factors that affect and dominate the criminal behavior of an actor. Criminal psychology is the internal motivation and controlling power of criminal behavior, and criminal behavior is the external manifestation of criminal psychology. Individual desire is suppressed in the social constraints and the dual psychological characteristics of inferiority and resistance appear, forming a psychological tendency that ignores the normative authority from moral to law. The internalization of this tendency, that is, the sense of crime, promotes anti-social personality; the externalization of this tendency, that is, criminal behavior, endangers social order. Adolescents with anti-social personality are more likely to commit social crimes due to conflicts in their physical and mental development. Adolescents with anti-social personality often exhibit criminal behavior. But the so-called crime here is different from crime in the legal sense, it is based on psychological and psychiatric aspects. Juvenile delinquency seriously deviates from cultural and social norms and commits crimes such as homicide, robbery, and drug and sexual behaviors that do not correspond to their age. Juvenile (minor) crime should be considered a serious challenge to social stability. If juvenile delinquency is not handled properly, it will become a factor of social instability.

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