CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY

Criminal psychology

Criminal psychology

Criminal psychology is the area of legal psychology, which studies the psychological mechanisms of delinquency and the psychology of offenders, the problems of education, structure, functioning and the collapse of criminal groups. David Kelley, one of the founders of the legal and criminal psychology in America, wrote this about criminal psychology: "A criminal psychology studies all of the mental state of the individual, which have a particular impact on the criminal responsibility, and the subject of criminal psychology is not the individual psychic processes in their justification of a possible mental and personality in a certain circle of ...