Criminal Etiology

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Criminal etiology is the science of the causes of crime. In addition to criminal phenomenology and victimology, it is a sub-area of criminology .

Areas

Criminal aetiology comprises the following three areas:

  • Forensic biology : the crime is based on the physical abilities of the offender ("born offender")
  • Criminal sociology: the crime is based on social causes
  • Criminal psychology : the crime is based on the psyche of the individual

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hans-Dieter Schwind : Kriminologie. A practice-oriented introduction with examples (= basics. The series of "Kriminalistik". 28). 18th, revised and expanded edition. Kriminalistik-Verlag, Heidelberg et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7832-0700-2 , p. 7, Schwind also counts penology , forensic psychology and psychiatry, institutional research and crime statistics to the sub-areas.