Criminal Justice Paper

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Title: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

Orquidea Quinones

Nova Southeastern University

Criminality needs a critical understanding to help reduce criminal incidences which might bring instability in a country or a community. For the people to be able to live in harmony without criminal incidences, different treatment implications of psychological understanding of criminality should be put in place for an effective management of the criminal incidences. Some of the psychological understanding of criminality based on the treatment implication are advisory, actuarial experimental and clinical. In all the treatment implications, the psychologist should make and assess which will govern him to make the right judgments. Again, a research is carried out for the psychologist to inform a case by making execution for different experiments hence increasing the information available. To some extent, statistics is used so as to show the frequency of the occurrence of the crimes.

Frustration plays different roles in influencing the aggression of a person according to various psychological theories. Some of the roles played by frustration in influencing the aggression of a person are the ability to thwart the efforts of a person to reach his set goals within a given period of time. This is brought by the trigger of the person’s behaviors hence the destruction of the people’s objectives as a result of frustration. Again, frustration can play a role in reducing the desires of a person to perform a certain activity hence lowering the general performance of the individual. This can again force the individual to withdraw from important activities which can lead to a good progress of his projects. Frustration and aggression should be controlled as they can inter the good progress of an individual which can lead to a long term poverty.

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