Prelim Exam
Prelim Exam
Prelim Exam
PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES
From the word ‘psychology’ it is the study of human mind and therefore this
approach highlighted the relationship of an individual’s psychological
aspect on the causation of a criminal behavior. Because of the reason that
personality is the major motivational element that drives behavior within
individuals, psychological approach mainly focuses on how broad personality
can drive a person’s behavior and how individuals with personality disorder
can influence the person’s behavior to commit crime. The importance of
psychological approaches is that the methods of crime control policies
which are based on psychological principles target the individual and
attempt to reform or prevent psychological principles from that
perspective. Also, psychologists have long been recognized that the best
predictor of future behavior is the individual’s past behavior. So policies
that are specifically designed to deal with repeat offenders are also based
on psychological principles of criminality.
SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES
BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES