Psychoanalytic criminology
- Psychoanalytic criminology
Psychoanalytic criminology is a method of studying crime and criminal behaviour that draws from Freudian psychoanalysis. This school-of-thought examines personality and the psyche (particularly the unconscious) for motive in crime.[Cite web|title=The Re-emergence of Psychoanalytical Criminology|last=Belser|first=Alex|location=Cambridge Institute of Criminology|url=http://www.alexbelser.com/documents/belser-psychoanalytical-criminology.pdf|accessdate=2008-02-09] ]Criminal behaviour is attributed to maladjustment[Cite journal|doi=10.1093/bjc/azl046|volume=46|issue=4|pages=766–769|last=Buhagiar|first=Lawrence|title=Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. By Peter Becker and Richard Wetzell (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 492pp, {pound}60 hb).|journal=Br J Criminol|accessdate=2008-02-09|date=2006-07-01|url=http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org] and dysfunctional personality.][Cite web|title=Glossary - P|work=Criminology Today, 4ed|publisher=Pearson Education Company|last=Hall|first=Prentice|url=http://www.prenhall.com/cjcentral/crimtoday4e/glossary/p.html|accessdate=2008-01-09] According to Buhagiar, "psychoanalytic criminologists were not adverse to the principle of confinement, and often favored increased penality".]History
Sigmund Freud published "Criminality from a Sense of Guilt" in 1916 in which, according to Belser, " [Freud] maintains that crime is committed by individuals with tremendous unconscious guilt and overdeveloped superegos who seek to be caught and punished".
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