Criminal Psychology Research Articles

The history of Japanese criminal psychology by revision: Prewar part

The history of Japanese criminal psychology by revision: Prewar part

Crossroads of Criminal Psychology and Law and Psychology

Crossroads of Criminal Psychology and Law and Psychology

The history of Japanese criminal psychology by revision: Postwar part

The history of Japanese criminal psychology by revision: Postwar part

Can scientific contributions by Japanese criminal psychologists be sustainable after detached from their practical fields?: A bibliometric analysis of scientist-practitioners

Can scientific contributions by Japanese criminal psychologists be sustainable after detached from their practical fields?: A bibliometric analysis of scientist-practitioners

Examination of factors affecting males’ determination of sexual harrassment Criminal Psychology

직장내 성희롱은 오랜 기간 사회적 문제로 제기되어 왔고 관련대책도 증가하고 있지만 좀처럼 근절되지 않고 있다. 지난 수십 년간 성희롱 연구가들은 성희롱에 대한 개념과 판단에 성별, 연령 등의 사회인구학적 요인, 권력관계, 조직내 분위기, 가부장적 사회 등의 사회문화적 요인, 성희롱 관련 인식차이와 같은 개인적 요인이 영향을 미친다고 지적해왔다. 성희롱 행위의 상당수가 남성에게서 발생한다는 점을 고려하여 본 연구에서는 직장인 남성의 성희롱 판단에 영향을 미치는 요인을 탐색코자 하였다. 이를 위해 기존의 성희롱 관련 판례 등을 참고하여 직장내 성희롱을 묘사하는 4개의 시나리오를 구성한 후, 이를 권력관계, 성희롱유형, 피해자반응으로 변이시켜 직장에 재직 중인 남성 참여자(N=452)에게 성희롱 정도를 판단케 하였다. 또한 응답자의 사회인구학적 특성 및 인식적 특성(성희롱 관련 통념) 등을 함께 투입하여 성희롱 판단에 영향을 미치는 요인을 탐색하였다. 연구결과, 우리나라 직장인 남성들은 성희롱 행위의 유형 즉, ‘성적(sexual) 성질’을 성희롱 판단 정도에 가장 고려하는 것으로 나타났다. 권력관계는 부분적으로 영향을 미쳤는데, 성희롱 행위가 신체적일 때는 성희롱 판단에 별다른 영향을 미치지는 않다가 언어적일 때는 동료 간의 상황보다 권력관계에서 일어나는 상황을 보다 더 성희롱으로 판단하고 있었다. 일부 시나리오에서는 개인이 가지고 있는 성희롱 관련 통념이 성희롱 판단에 영향을 미쳐, 성희롱 관련 통념이 존재할수록 관련 상황을 성희롱으로 판단하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 성희롱 행위경험이나 연령 등은 성희롱 판단에 영향을 미치지 않았다. 이러한 결과는 남성이 직장내 성희롱을 판단할 때 행위의 ‘성적 성질’을 가장 중시하면서 권력관계에서 발생하는 예외적 경우가 아니면 언어적 성희롱에 다소 덜 민감할 수 있음과, 개별적 남성이 가지고 있는 ‘성희롱 관련 통념 및 인식’이 연령이나 성희롱 표출경험보다 성희롱 판단에 영향을 미치는 것으로 해석되었다. 향후 남성의 성희롱 예방교육에서 성희롱 관련 사례 분석 및 논의 등을 강화하여 언어적 성희롱을 포함한 성희롱 전반행위에 대한 민감성을 기르고, 개인의 성희롱 관련 통념 수준을 진단하여 문제가 있을 경우 그 수준을 감소시키는 참여형 교육으로 변모시킬 필요가 있음을 제안하였다.Sexual harrassment has been a societal problem for a long time and public measures to counteract to it has been increasing, but noticeable change has not been yet found. Many researchers have pointed that one of the reasons that sexual harassment has not been exterminated lies in difficulty in determining it. In order to examine what factors affect judging sexual harassment, we created 4 scenarios based on actual sexual harassment cases, varied them with power-relationships, sexual harassment types and victim responses, assigned the varied 32 scenarios to all participants(N=452) randomly, and had them rate to what extent the illustrated acts were sexually harassing. We also examined personal factors(age, marital status, experience of committing sexual harassment), individual perceptions(conventional beliefs on sexual harassment, sex role beliefs, rape myth) along with the varied scenario factors. The results showed that participants considered the sexual nature of the illustrated act foremost in determining sexual harassment. When the sexual harassment involved physical acts, power relationship did not affect at all, but when it did verbal ones, they rated scenarios with power relationship more sexually harassing than ones without it. In some scenarios, individual perceptions affected determining sexual harassment. The more conventional beliefs participants had, their agreement with sexual harassment became lower. These results were interpreted and discussed within individual difference model, and we suggested sexual harassment prevention education be improved by engaging participants with more activities such as role-plays or case discussions and thus encouraging them into dealing with their perceptual processes.

A Study on the Cause of Coast Guard Corruption Criminal Psychology

본 연구는 해양경찰의 청렴성과 영향요인을 측정, 분석하기 위한 목적으로 독립변수는 개인적 요인, 제도적요인, 환경적 요인 이며, 종속변수는 경찰청렴성의 인식이다. 연구결과는 첫째, 개인적 요인 중 떡값과 촌지의 인식의 전환이 청렴인식에 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 둘째, 환경적 요인 중 연고주의와 온정주의가 없을수록 청렴도 인식에는 긍정적인 영향을 미친다. 셋째, 제도적 요인은 청렴도인식에 유의미한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 조사되었으며 이러한 연구를 기본으로 해양경찰은 조직의 청렴도 향상을 위한 다양한 정책을 시행하여야할 것이다.This study was designed to analyze the factors affecting the integrity of Coast Guard. Independent variables are personal factors, institutional factors, and environmental factors, and the dependent variable is the perception of police integrity. First, it was confirmed that the change of the a small present in the personal factors influenced the recognition of integrity. Second, the more positive the environmental factors are, the more positive the effect of integrity is. Third, institutional factors did not have a significant effect on the perception of integrity. Based on these studies, Coast Guard should implement various policies to improve the integrity of the organization.

Mapping London in Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem: Promenades into a Murderer's Mind

Bu makale Peter Ackroyd'un Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem başlıklı romanındaki şiddet olgusunu incelemektedir. Makale romandaki şiddetin kaynağı olan şehir imgesi ile baş karakter arasındaki ilişkiyi ele alır. Makaleye göre okuyucunun gerçek kimliğini ancak romanın sonunda anlayabildiği acımasız seri katili yaratan, besleyen ve bir sonraki katliam için sürekli cesaretlendirerek adeta bir canavara dönüştüren on dokuzuncu yüzyıl Viktorya Dönemi Londra'sının sosyo-ekonomik koşullarında hüküm süren fiziksel ve psikolojik güçlerdir.Yaşadığı tüm zorlukları aşarak çocukluk hayallerini gerçekleştiren ve genç yaşta başarılı bir müzikhol oyuncusu olan Elizabeth Cree kanlı sanatını makrokozmik bir tiyatro sahnesi olarak betimlenen Londra'da izleyicilerin beğenisine sunmaktadır.Katilin kurbanları arasında etnik köken, sınıf, cinsiyet ve yaş ayrımı yapmaması, okuyucunun katilin motivasyonunu anlamlandırarak mantıklı bir sebep-sonuç ilişkisi kurmasına engel olur. Postmodern anlatım teknikleri kullanılarak oluşturulan olay örgüsü yazarın hem dedektif romanı geleneğine meydan okuyarak türü yeniden kurgulamasını hem de okuyucunun önyargı ve varsayıma dayanan suç kavramı ve suçlu psikolojisi ile ilgili yerleşik algılarını yeniden sorgulamasını sağlar. Sonuç olarak makale bir Viktorya Dönemi metropolü olan Londra sakinlerine eşit sosyo-ekonomik, sanatsal fırsatlar sağlayabiliyor mu? Yoksa şehir yoksul, zayıf, yoksun sakinlerini, özellikle kadınları, bir canavar gibi çiğnemeden yutup posalarını tükürüyor mu?Londra'nın özgün tarihçesi ve kimliğini seri katilin yaşam öyküsü ve kimliği ile örtüştürmek olası mıdır? Etimoljik açıdan isminin kökeni “şiddet” kelimesine dayanan bir şehir olan Londra, alt sınıftan, nefret duyguları ile büyütülmüş bir karakterin zihinsel haritasına dönüştüğünde ne olur? gibi sorulara cevap aramaktadır.

Magatartástudomány és kriminálpszichológia a rendészeti oktatásban

The author provides an overview of the role of criminal psychology education in law enforcement education.

非行・犯罪心理学における動機づけ研究--本邦における無力感と効力感に関する研究のこれまでと今後について

非行・犯罪心理学における動機づけ研究--本邦における無力感と効力感に関する研究のこれまでと今後について

A husband was said to have killed his wife and two children to re-marry another female met through social media: a glimpse in to criminal psychology

A husband was said to have killed his wife and two children to re-marry another female met through social media: a glimpse in to criminal psychology

Heraclitus’ River and Recent Advances in Criminal Psychology

Heraclitus’ River and Recent Advances in Criminal Psychology

Analiza modus operandi i próba ustalenia motywacji sprawcy na podstawie studium przypadku niewyjaśnionych zbrodni z Łodzi – kryptonim ,,Partner”

Artykuł jest próbą interpretacji informacji zgromadzonych na podstawie treści materiałów naukowych, w konfrontacji z powszechnie dostępnymi doniesieniami prasowymi i plikami multimedialnymi, dotyczącymi największej niewyjaśnionej serii morderstw w historii polskiej kryminalistyki. Z uwagi na dobro śledztwa są one autoryzowanymi przez organy pracujące nad sprawą komunikatami, będącymi ułamkiem materiału zgromadzonego od czasu rozpoczęcia śledztwa, lecz wystarczającymi do zaspokojenia prawa do informacji publicznej, a także zwykłej ciekawości społecznej. Opierając się na powyższej dokumentacji, autor sformułował kilka pytań, na które stara się uzyskać odpowiedzi z powodu niekompletnego zarysu profilu sprawcy, zwłaszcza nieznanego jednostkom nieoperującym biegle w dziedzinach nauki, takich jak kryminologia, kryminalistyka, medycyna sądowa oraz psychologia kryminalna. Omówione zostały także zmiany następujące w związku z upływem czasu oraz nowe wątki wokół śledztwa.

Violent Sensations: Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860–1914 by Scott Spector

Reviewed by: Violent Sensations: Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860–1914 by Scott Spector Kerry Wallach Violent Sensations: Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860–1914. By Scott Spector. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 296. Paper $25.00. ISBN 978-0226196787. The question “who is the murderer?” remains at the heart of countless media scandals today, just as over a century ago; many rely on graphic images of violence, brutality, and criminal activity. Scott Spector’s long-awaited book eloquently demonstrates that the fascination with such spectacles dates back to the 1860s, with the rise of media scandals about sexual practices (especially between men) and their potential connections to violent criminal acts. Ritual murder accusations that gained momentum in the 1880s made for Central European versions of the Dreyfus Affair, which strained Christian-Jewish relations and put allegedly treacherous Jews on trial. The fin-de-siècle, when killers similar to London’s Jack the Ripper and other marginal or degenerate figures came to signify urban modernity, marks a further turning point in this history. It was also around 1900 when new sensationalist texts about the criminality of the metropolis proliferated. Violent figures associated with the city became the subjects of modern scientific studies, legal investigations, and medical diagnoses. Yet in some cases they also emerged as subjects on their own terms. In rejecting the sufficiency of the “marginalization thesis” embraced by Richard Evans and others (namely that marginal figures merely validated more centered identities), Spector shifts the conversation toward a dialectical analytic that brings together “enlightened” and “decadent” discourses (2–3). Scientific, legal, and medical texts constitute the enlightened sources; [End Page 178] newspaper articles and popular books make up the decadent. Although Vienna and Berlin are the primary focus of this study, which innovatively explores cultural phenomena across national borders, noteworthy events elsewhere in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire also receive attention. One of the book’s major claims makes it required reading for historians and German studies scholars alike: it was not after World War I, but rather in the decades prior to the war, when violent fantasies emerged on a mass scale. By positioning World War I “not as a cause but as a symptom” (14), Spector suggests that Weimar scholarship—on Lustmord, criminality, and sexuality, among other topics—must look to earlier decades for the origins of interwar-era incarnations (170, 196). The fin-de-siècle represents an especially key moment: Otto Weininger, Robert Musil, and, to a lesser degree, Sigmund Freud factor into Spector’s portrait of this time. In addition to its in-depth look at individual texts and criminal cases, the book also offers an early history of the fields of criminology, criminal psychology, and forensics. For Spector, Austrian Hanns Gross serves as a real-life Sherlock Holmes (56). German responses to the early criminal anthropological work of Cesare Lombroso, which privileged physical signs of degeneration ranging from forehead shape to tattoos, lead to a fascinating discussion of criminal accountability (Zurechnungsfähigkeit). Here we see the growing authority of expert witnesses and their knowledge, a trope that runs throughout the book. Spector makes the powerful argument that the fixation on “twilight conditions” or border states (Dämmerzustände) including epilepsy, somnambulism, alcoholism, and religious fanaticism, points to a rejection of will and a privileging of innate characteristics as explanations for crime or violence (252). Sexuality is at the core of several chapters on homosexuality and Lustmord, and scholars of gender and sexuality will find this history indispensable to understanding work on later developments in sexology. In weaving together various theories of homosexuality, Spector emphasizes the early conflation of same-sex and violent sexual practices, as well as the crime scandals that brought many alleged homosexuals into the limelight. The coinage of such terms as Urning (same-sex attraction) by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and homosexual by Karóly Kertbeny (Karl-Maria Benkert) predates and informs the important work of Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Magnus Hirschfeld. One scandalous court case from 1889 led Krafft-Ebing to write the first article on lesbianism (Gynandrie); the story of Sándor (Sarolta) Vay here leads us to...

A Study on the Shorten Hypnotizability Tool for Efficient Hypnotic Investigation - HGSHS-K -

이 연구에서는 본 연구자의 이전 연구(한국범죄심리학회, 2017)를 바탕으로 HGSHS-K의 신뢰도를 낮추는 환각, 최면 후 암시, 망각을 제외한 9개 항목의 신뢰도를 확인하기 위한 예비연구로 실시하였다. 이를 통해 12개 항목의 crombach s alpha .611보다 높은 .733으로 향상되는 것을 확인하였다. 신뢰도가 높은 단축형 HGSHS-K를 제시하여 최면수사간 감수성 측정시간 단축과 최면대상자의 피로도 감소 및 집중도 있는 최면감수성 측정을 위한 측정도구로 활용할 수 있도록 하였다. 이 측정도구를 최면수사의 현장에서 활용함으로써 최면수사에 의한 회상기억과 최면수사와의 관련성을 확인하는 등 최면수 사가 과학적 수사기법으로 발전하는데 기여하기를 간절히 바래본다.The study, based on the study by the researchers previous (Korean Association Criminal Psychology, 2017), identified nine measurement items of confidence in the researchers, excluding hallucinations, post-hypneumatic indications and amnesia that reduces their reliability. This has confirmed an improvement of. 733 over 12 items crombach s alpha.611. so this shorten HGSHS-K can Reduce the measures time and fatigue degree so that can maintain concentrativeness and measure accurate hypnotizability of a hypnotic subject sincerely hope that this study will contribute to scientific investigation of hypnosis, such as the scientific development of hypnosis and relation the recollection of memories and hypnotic investigations

Crime and punishment as a social system: the case of prison overcrowding

PurposeThis paper presents an actor-based conceptualization of the increasing oscillatory pattern of prison overcrowding in Colombia. The research proposes a dynamic hypothesis that explains that unintended behavioural pattern as a result of delayed balance feedback loops shaped by decision-making processes of actors that intend to control crime. This system matches a well-known systemic archetype that explains those persistent oscillations. The paper also introduces a simulation model for testing that dynamic hypothesis and for delivering concrete courses of action. This work illustrates the relevance for policymakers to understand the dynamic complexity of social systems as the outcome of the agency of actors who take action to defend their own interests. Such actions ultimately form a complex web of interactions that drive the performance of such systems with unintended consequences. In particular, the construction of explicit models provides better chances of devising policies that consider the system-level implications of those interactions.Design/methodology/approachThis work uses system dynamics modelling. First, the paper presents a conceptual model anchored in operational thinking, which refers to the identification of actors and decisions, and the manner in which those decisions ultimately build the respective social system in which the oscillatory pattern emerges. Second, it identifies key feedback structures that result from those chains of decisions. Finally, the paper introduces a simulation model for suggesting policy implications for decisionmakers.FindingsThe increasing oscillatory pattern that prison overcrowding in Colombia has displayed over the last 20 years is the outcome of a wide variety of laws that increase sanctions on criminal conducts, a phenomenon known as “legislative inflation”. Such reactions against crime are propelled and sustained by society and policymakers as the result of static and linear thinking that simply delivers “more punishment” of crime – harsher legislation and longer prison terms – which ultimately boosts long-term prison overcrowding and further cycles of crime control and overcrowding. Such actions create permanent negative feedback loops that involve various material and information delays, which – coupled with the reinforcing feedback loops – explain the previously mentioned behavioural pattern. Through a system dynamics simulation model, this paper tests and explains the proposed dynamic hypothesis and shows how policymakers can enhance and develop their dynamic understanding to explore and design effective policies intended to tackle prison overcrowding.Practical implicationsThis paper presents a practical and concrete case that bridges the fields of criminal policy and prison management through systems thinking. It uses the case of prison overcrowding in Colombia to demonstrate the relevance of incorporating systemic thinking into the cognitive portfolio of policymakers if they aspire to improve complex systems.Originality/valueCriminal policy and prison management are different fields that typically belong to different traditions (law and criminal psychology for the former, public administration for the latter). The work presented here bridges those perspectives under a single engineering and systemic perspective that answers questions in both fields and serves as a unifying framework for designing more coherent criminal policies that meet the practical requirements and restrictions that prison management implies.

Mad‐Doctors in the Dock:. Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913 Joel Peter Eigen. Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins University Press (2016) 224pp. £35.97hb ISBN 9781421420486

The role of ‘Mad-Doctors’, alienists, criminal anthropologists, criminal psychologists, criminalists, psychiatrists and psychiatry in the courts, and their influence on the rule of law have throughout the last 40–50 years accumulated quite a large literature in history, law and the social sciences. The modern metamorphosis of thought on knowing right from wrong, the development of medical diagnoses from labels such as moral insanity and moral epilepsy to modern-day psychopathy have attracted the interest of historians, criminologists, and legal scholars. This is a fruitful interdisciplinary field, yet also, at times, quite a politically-contentious research area. Joel Peter Eigen's Mad-Doctors in the Dock is the final volume of a trilogy that started with the 1995 publication of Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court (Eigen 1995). The focus of his latest book is on the emergence of the diagnosis homicidal mania and its reception (see especially Chapters 5 and 6), but also more generally concerns the rise of forensic psychiatry. Since the publication of Foucault's Madness and Civilization, much scholarly attention and debate has been devoted to the history of notions and treatment of insanity, but rarely have scholars, whether sympathetic or critical, looked with any sustained concern beyond the narrow world of medical authorities. The related study of insanity in law has similarly confined its purview to leading cases, such as McNaughten's. This estimable book breaks new ground by looking outside the medical realm and beyond major cases. (pp.375–6) The ability to look at the court and legal process without having too myopic a focus on medical authorities remains one of Eigen's most important contributions to this area of research. His impressive work stands as a vital empirical corrective to much literature that fails to clearly provide a balanced presentation of how much power ‘Mad-Doctors’, alienists et al. actually exerted in the courts and on the rule of law. As Eigen puts it, although the ‘Victorian alienist became a regular cast member in the Old Bailey drama … he would have to earn his hour upon the stage’ (p.10). That the testimonies and scientific perspectives of ‘Mad-Doctors’ were often challenged is per se not a novel finding, but Eigen manages to bring out important nuances and presentations of the diverse actors and forces involved in cases of insanity and criminal justice. Eigen's source material covers 994 trials collected in over a 20-year time span, this in contrast to the majority of research which still most often uses examples from singular (or few court) cases. Eigen's Mad-Doctors in the Dock should be compulsory reading for those interested in understanding the development of English insanity defences and trials in the 19th Century especially. It is a pity, however, that he does not explicitly, in this final part of his project, engage more with the role and influence of the psychiatric professions in the courts examined by former researchers in this area. While, in the introduction, he acknowledges the support and influence of scholars such as Nigel South and Andrew Scull (to mention just a couple) and testifies to inspiration from historical sociologists, he abstains from reflecting on the meta-positions which, arguably, exist in the research on the influence of psychiatry in the courts. However, it would be bad form to critique a text for what is absent when there is so much to appraise. Eigen's trilogy will, for a long time, undoubtedly stand as among the most important contributions to the history of insanity trials in English courts. When it comes to what, in this review, is considered lacking, hopefully this is something we will get to look forward to in his later publications.

How do university-researchers study criminal psychology?

How do university-researchers study criminal psychology?

Life in a Forgotten Scottish Gulag: Punishment and Social Regulation in HM Peterhead Convict Prison

AbstractThis paper contributes to filling a lacuna in our knowledge of penal history in Scotland by examining the voices of convicts through records of prisoners experiencing Penal Servitude during the period 1897–1942. The sources utilized are the archived files of thirty‐two male convict prisoners in Scotland's Convict Prison at Peterhead. These files give insights about life in this remote prison as conveyed through records of punishment, prisoners' requests, and prisoners' letters. Prison Rules about convict correspondence highlight penal letters as a distinctive genre of communication: political and personal boundaries were enforced on all exchanges. The convict prison, like nineteenth‐century British labour colonies, imposed workhouse conditions at the extreme; it was a place of exclusion, dominated by religious and social sentiment and suppositions about criminal psychology and containment. The extent of the curtailment of convicts' liberty and the aim of re‐socialization is refracted in penal practices fostering convict dependency. The ethos of Scotland's convict colony was immersed in military traditions of training, subservience to authority and generalized gloom.

Relationships and implications of biological determinism, the Freudian thought of criminal psychology, and the new criminology

Se analiza el nuevo impulso del determinismo biologico en el momento neoliberal actual, el pensamiento freudiano sobre la psicologia criminal y el denominado paradigma cientifico de la nueva criminologia, especialmente el de la criminologia critica, enfocando sus relaciones e implicancias, esto es, las conexiones, contradicciones y consecuencias entre aquellas y estas, con la finalidad de reflexionar sobre las causas de la criminalidad desde su posicion criminologica personal. El objetivo del articulo es evaluar la funcionalidad de los enfoques determinista biologico y psicologico de la criminalidad en el actual paradigma cientifico de la criminologia critica. Como resultado del analisis correlacional, se concluye en que las escuelas de la criminologia clinica y psicologica no explican suficientemente la causa de la criminalidad actualmente.

Virtudes y fortalezas de carácter en personas recluidas en un sistema penitenciario

Dentro del campo de estudio de la psicología de la criminalidad, con cierta regularidad se caracteriza a las personas que han cometido algún delito como individuos con rasgos de personalidad negativos y carentes de fortalezas de carácter. Sin embargo, la Psicología Positiva (PP) plantea la noción de que todos los seres humanos poseen, en grados variables, virtudes y fortalezas y que éstas se manifiestan universalmente en la mayoría de las culturas. El objetivo del presente estudio fue determinar y analizar si las personas que han cometido algún delito presentan, por lo tanto, rasgos virtuosos y fortalezas de carácter. El estudio se llevó a cabo en una institución penitenciaria de la ciudad de Hermosillo, Sonora, México. Se aplicó el inventario de virtudes y fortalezas (VIA-S), en su versión del idioma español y reducido a una muestra de 104 internos: 89.4% hombres y 10.6% mujeres. A partir de los hallazgos se concluyó que, así como el resto de las personas, los individuos que han cometido algún acto delictivo poseen rasgos virtuosos y gozan de fortalezas de carácter.