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Essay on Criminology-Criminal Psychology
Criminology is a highly developed, hypothetical field of revision. It can be definite as the study of crime, the causes of crime etiology, the significance of crime in terms of law, and community reaction to crime. Not too long ago, criminology separated from its look after discipline, sociology, and although there are some historical continuities, it has since developed habits and methods of thinking about crime and criminal behavior that are uniquely its own.
Theory is a multifarious subject in its own right. Criminological theory is no omission; it also tends to be complex. Some definitions of terms might help to understand the field: “Criminology is the science of crime rates, individual and group reasons for committing crime, and community or societal reactions to crime” (Siegel, 2002). Applied criminology is the art of creating typologies, classifications, predictions, and especially profiles of criminal offenders, their personalities and behavior patterns.
The History of criminology dates back to Lombroso, whom many regard as the father of criminology. Others claim that Phrenology, which is studying bumps on the head, better, represents the origins of the science. Even today, there is still an interest in the biological causes of criminal behavior.
Psychology and Sociology have influenced Criminology significantly. One of the things we are still struggling with, however, is the study of Psychopaths.
Some of the Criminological theories are as follows: Biological Theory, which is to treat the defect and protect society from the untreatable. Treatment to include drugs, psychosurgery, plastic surgery, genetic counseling, and eugenics for the untreatable. Protection to include experts as decision makers, individualized diagnosis, prediction, and indeterminate sentencing. Tendency to medical justice issues, and potential for misuse by government as form of social control.
Psychological Theory is prediction, prevention, and therapeutic intervention. Intervention therapies to include psychoanalysis, group therapy, counseling, family therapy, drug treatment, and reconditioning..............
