Criminal Mind // Psychopathology facts about personality

There are many ways to describe a criminal, no matter what the term is, the question is, is a criminal born or made? We will try to approach the subject from the point of view of Criminology because this will lead us to understand that it is a security issue finally.

Criminal Psychopathology:

As a definition, we can say that it is the science that studies the relationship between crime and psychological disorders. In general, it is to study the criminal as an individual who manifests certain psychological pathologies in his behavior.

Throughout the history of mankind, pathological criminals have always existed, perhaps they were not cataloged with the terms known today, but they did exist. Once this science was born, the criminal began to be studied from the psychological point of view, to understand his behavior and what factors influenced him to be a criminal.

Since this science was born, the main objective was to deduce if a criminal was born or made. There are many theories in this regard, some more verifiable than others, some more true than others. It is basically about understanding the way criminal acts, understanding what goes through his mind when he is going to commit a crime. It is a very complex and interesting subject.

Criminology tries to explain the behavior psychological of the criminal, trying to determine what factors led the offender to commit a crime. It is a science that has tried to explain over time, the factors that intervene so that a crime is committed as we see it.

Researchers have been obsessed with finding out if a person commits a crime by birth.

Since this is a complex issue, researchers began by analyzing the biological component of the offender, then the social component, later the environmental component, schooling, and so on, Over time, they came to cover all the possible factors that affect the offender's mind.

It is so complex that there is no single pattern that indicates whether an individual will be a criminal or not because unfortunately a criminal is discovered once he has already committed the crime.

Surely in the future, science and researchers will be able to discover a criminal before he is one.

Risk factors that could influence an individual to become a criminal

1: Family Factors: the family is very important in the early stages of an individual's development, especially in socialization. It will depend a lot if it is a large family if there is an absence of parents, the parenting style, if there is authoritarianism or permissiveness, the family environment also influences. This stage is when the principles and values are instilled, which will serve the future adult to defend himself from the bad influences that he finds in his life.

2: School Factors:  schooling is very important since that is where the principles instilled in the home are reinforced. In addition, new experiences are acquired and known that will influence throughout life. Bad habits or bad experiences can also be acquired, such as school failure, competitiveness, individualism. As we can see, both at home and at school, teachings are given that will mark the life of the person, both positively and negatively. The concept of law or authority must be internalized at this stage.

3: Environmental Factors: the environment in which the individual grows is very important, what was said before is that, the more social class the less probability of being a criminal and it was demonstrated with statistics. Therefore, the conclusion was that the lower castes were more guilty. Over the years, it was thought that the lower social class was more disadvantaged, that they were not on an equal footing with the upper social class since they could not hire better lawyers.

Today it is said that the environment affects a criminal through his peer group, family, friends. And if in your group they commit crimes, carry weapons, take drugs, that would be a strong predictor of crime as a possible cause.

4: Media: the information provided by these media influences the perception of people at risk. We must take care of the information provided so as not to create social stigmas that drag individuals into crime.

5: Genetic Factors: Certain antisocial behaviors have a genetic basis. Some research results say that certain people are more predisposed to associate physical punishment with aggression, which would explain why not all abused children develop antisocial tendencies.