Criminal psychology
Criminal psychology deals with the inner experience (thinking, fantasy, etc.) and the behavior of people who break laws. It is the study of views, thoughts, intentions, actions, reactions and everything that is involved in (criminal) behavior. Criminal psychology is a sub-discipline of legal psychology and criminology .
In criminal biology
Criminal psychology is a sub-area of criminal biology within criminology that deals with the causes of the crime that exist in the perpetrator himself due to his physical and mental predispositions. The task of criminal psychology is to determine the psychological state of the offender at the time of the offense by reflecting on the time periods directly surrounding the offense and the offender's overall personality. Among other things, this involves questions relating to the determination of criminal liability such as excessive states of fear ( e.g. in the event of an excess of emergency defenses ), anger and affect congestion, instinctual reactions. Noticeable mental and physical conditions can exist at the same time, in these cases there is an overlap between criminal somatology and criminal psychology.
In psychology
In psychology, the concept of criminal psychology is usually a synonym for Forensic Psychology needed after criminal psychology is a branch of forensic psychology and belongs to applied psychology. However, the systematic assignment of terms and the relationship between the terms forensic psychology, criminal psychology and legal psychology is not described in a uniform manner in the literature; Sometimes criminal psychology is mentioned alongside legal psychology as a branch of forensic psychology, sometimes criminal psychology and forensic psychology as parts of legal psychology.
Synonymous with police psychology is the criminology associate and also belongs to applied psychology. As a theoretical supplier for etiological explanations of crime , criminal psychology is seen as a reference science of criminology . From a criminal aetiological aspect, criminal psychology is used, among other things, in the investigation of crimes committed by followers of the Islamic State, such as: B. suicide bombings, sadistic murders, mass executions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Füllgrabe: Kriminalpsychologie: Perpetrators and victims in the game of life. Minerva Edition Wötzel, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-936611-06-8 , introduction, p. 13.
- ↑ Richard N. Koscis: Applied Criminal Psychology: A Guide to Forensic Behavioral Sciences. Charles C Thomas Publisher, Springfield 2009, ISBN 978-0-398-07842-3 , p. 7. (books.google.de ; English)
- ^ DA Andrews, James Bonta: The Psychology of Criminal Conduct. Rutledge, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4377-7898-4 . (books.google.de ; English)
- ^ Roland Chr. Hoffmann-Plesch: German IS Jihadists. Criminal etiological and crime preventive analysis of the radicalization process. Part 2: Aspects of criminal psychology. In: Criminology. 69, No. 1, 2015, pp. 10-16.