Psychology- Disorders & Criminality.pptx

Psychological disorders often play a complex role in criminality, influencing behavior in various ways. For example, individuals with antisocial personality disorder may exhibit a lack of empathy and disregard for societal norms, increasing the likelihood of engaging in criminal behavior such as fraud or violence.

Similarly, those with substance use disorders may commit crimes to support their addiction or while under the influence. Additionally, mood disorders like depression or bipolar disorder can impair judgment and impulse control, contributing to impulsive or reckless acts that may lead to criminal charges. Moreover, individuals with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia may experience delusions or hallucinations that distort reality and lead to behaviors that are perceived as criminal.

1. TOPIC – PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER AND CRIMINALITY Rohan Singrore

2. A psychological disorder is an engoing dysfunctional pattern of though, emotion and behavior that causes significant distress and that is considered deviant in that person’s culture or society. According to bio-psycho-social model psychological disorder have biological and social causes.

3. Criminality the propensity to become involved in criminal activity and crime, participation in a specific criminal event are normally treated as separate entities. Most criminology theories, in fact can be classified as either theories of criminality or theories of crime

4. MENTAL DISORDER AND CRIMINALITY

5. The term mental disorder is also referred to as mental abnormality. It denotes that the mind is in a state of confusion or is suffering from some disease. Studies have shown that there is no evidence to prove that the crimes committed by criminals were induced by their mental disorder. On the contrary crime statistics showed that quite a large number of criminals were persistent offenders and more than 66% of them has a past criminal record and 44% of them had previously been in prison undergoing sentence.

6. Be that as it may, law does take mental illness or insanity into account while determining the criminal liability of the offender. It is also taken into account in sentencing offenders where they are subjected to clinical treatment rather than being sentenced. Insanity has been recognised as a defence in most penal laws. The rules recognising the defence of insanity in criminal law were first laid down in 1843 in the historic 'M’ Naghten’s case .