The impact of the family on criminal behavior

Abstract

There are still families, the climate of which creates premises for the formation of criminal personality, such as: conflictual families, hyperauthoritarian families or hyperpermissive, etc. The family environment can present very diverse deficiencies of a legal, social, moral, pedagogical order, related to situations such as: infidelity, abandonment, divorce, cohabitation, death, drug addicts, sexual vices, etc., not to mention the absence of the family environment itself, as in the case of orphaned, abandoned children in the care of public assistance. Parents often educate children empirically, relying on intuition and habit. The family’s educational deficiencies are manifested by: the total lack of interest in the child’s education; the excess of care, the indulgence of exaggerated affection; inability to provide the child with positive human models through their own example of behavior; lack of understanding and affection due to selfishness and indifference towards the child; excessive severity, unconscious or intentional, which creates an anxious family climate; the use of acts of violence as educational means.