1. What are the psychological causes of crime?
The study of criminal psychology has been given a number of names including forensic psychology, legal psychology and criminal psychology but under all these titles, psychologist have aimed to gain knowledge of criminal behaviour in order to both investigate and absolve crimes and ultimately to prevent them. ... Freud's most well known contribution to modern psychology was the significance he placed with the unconscious and it's influence on behaviour. ... No one psychoanalytic theory of criminal behaviour has been agreed on, but it is possible to explain the way Freud's conc...
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