CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

Gender Differences in Criminal Behavior



Gender Differences in Criminal Behavior

Introduction

In this paper, the profiles of a specific female and a specific male murderer is compared and contrasts. The information about the selected individuals is derived from publicly and professionally sources and it is impute about the psychological and biological bases that might account for their behavior. The profile I selected for a male murderer is Mumia Abu-Jamal who murdered a police officer, Daniel Faulkner. The case of Abu-Jamal became a podium for groups and gangs such as the anti-globalization pressure group, Black Nationalist movements, and the anti-death penalty groups who assert that he is innocent. On the other hand the female profile used is about

Psychological and biological theories of criminal behavior to compare the female and male murderer

Theory of biological explanatory of the crime: This theory tried to give the offense an explanation from the existence of configurations membership driving the criminal act, and the most important pioneers of the world Cesar Mbrozo (Gottfredson, 1990), who worked as a doctor into the Italian army and the work of hospitals, mental and this is what earned him the experience in the field and had an opportunity to deal with the criminals and non- criminals in terms of physical configuration. His research has enabled him to develop his theory presenting genetic factors that leads a person to commit criminal acts have concluded two things: 

be creative with the regressive qualities are available for most criminals do not have all of them 

That genetics alone do not lead to crime, but rather lead to the availability of a tendency toward crime, unless combined with certain factors may be acquired after birth.

The direction of a chromosome and the genetic factor: 

Then followed the work of the Mbrozo other attempts tried to link the crime actively glands morphology and chromosomes, and which has helped this is the significant progress made by science and scientific studies on the functions of glands and genetics and embryology. Trend Diversity is the one who gives the essential role genetic factors and the physical cause of the individual in criminal behavior.

Psychological Theory Interpretation of the crime: The trend psychological understanding of the phenomenon of crime was through the progress of psychology and especially the steps taken by the school of psychoanalysis and techniques of research, was a pilot studies focused on the feeling and the unconscious and repression resulting from the existence of a conflict myself, I ...