Sheoshree Adhikary, Vidyasagar University
ABSTRACT
Before a crime can be said to have occurred, it has to be committed, the act has to happen. So, without action, there can be no crime. The act must be legally forbidden by law. The consideration of the crime to be heinous will also depend on the intention of the person who commits the act. Now the question is whether, there was a criminal intent to commit the act, or it was just done without any planning or intention?
There are many ways to label the behaviour but as a psychologist, the real task is not to label the behaviour but rather to understand the reason behind the behaviour.
Crime can be easily defined by relating the act to the moral or ethical standards laid in a particular society. But as soon as we look at the criminal act from a psychological perspective many questions arise such as, how in psychological perspective can we define crime, wherein the perspective of the intention behind the act is understood?
The term ‘criminal psychology’ has been defined in several different ways. Even today there is no accepted definition.
Keywords: criminal psychology, moral psychology, criminology, criminal profiling and case studies.
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