What methods can we use to study and understand crime and criminal behaviour?

Question

I am currently studying psychology and forensic criminology and would like other views on this question.

Answer 1

Try selling hard drugs, or import young girls from Romania and turn your house into a massage parlour. That should give you some understanding of how your contribution to the make up of society, is mostless a thankless task.

Answer 2

Talk to people who study childhood development because most often the judgement centers in the brain for rational thought, non-abusive communication, stress management and or other self-control measures are not working right in the person who commonly disregards law and safe actions - but the end result is child-like behavior in an adult-sized body. It's sad to see our school teachers underpaid and overworked when they stand in front of our kids more than most parents.

Answer 3

Interviews with prisoners. Find out about their backgrounds, their family life, and their life in crime. I would advise examining 3 cases- a white collar criminal, a violent criminal, and a criminal of vice and virtue like a drug dealer or pimp. See if you can also get a person from the world of organized crime.

Answer 4

One method we can use is to try and understand the multiple factors which are related to criminality. Are there environmental or contextual factors which predict criminal behaviour (e.g., poverty, disturbed family relationships, associations with criminal peers)? Are there factors related to the individual (e.g., learning difficulties, substance abuse, poor impulse control, lack of empathy)? Are there factors which promote pro-social as opposed to anti-social activities (e.g. a commitment to education, employment)? If you think of criminal behaviour as multi-determined, you can then look at what can and cannot be changed at individual and societal levels to alter criminality.

Answer 5

The answer can not be in a few lines. It will require a book to answe this question.

Answer 6

There are some things you can't learn from books. The only way to understand it is to get off your duff and do it.

Answer 7

Ask the police for advice

Answer 8

I believe in euthanasia for the bad guys.

Answer 9

you can't start with the criminal; you have to start with his enviroment and what leads to destructive anti-social behavior; basically everything comes down to money

Answer 10

chemical handcuffs? really harrowing drug therapy can make people let there gaurd down and there for making it easyier to see there point of view