Psycho-Social Factors Leading to Criminal Behaviour
Journal Title: Research Journal of Philosophy & Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
ndia is a country witnessed rapid socio-economic changes since independence. With the rapid urbanization and emergence of new towns and cities, the rate of crime has continuously increased over the time. For the recent years crimes in our society has become very common everywhere. Due to modernization the values and mores were weaken. The rapid social change tends to produce social disorganization and consequently the rate of crime is also increasing. The violent crimes such as homicide, rape, kidnapping, assault and robbery etc are more rampant than other major offences. According to the report by National Crime Records Bureau-2015, Kerala is the State has highest cognizable crime rate ie; 723.2. The State Kerala has contributed 8.7 per cent of the total cognizable crimes reported in India. As much as the government has initiated a very strict penal provisions and various measures to stop this social evil, but still the rate of crime recorded is very high. In these circumstances the study was conducted with an intension to identify the psycho-social causes of criminal behaviour. The major objectives of the study were, to find out the social, psychological and economic factors leading to criminality. For the purpose of the study there are 80 samples were selected in a prison from Kerala by using purposive sampling method. The whole samples consisted of male respondents only. The respondents were selected on the basis of the types of crimes they had committed. The major social factors leading to criminal behaviour such as familial factors, peer group influence, educational level, alcoholism and usage of drugs, influence of movies, ganging and political motivation etc, were found in this study. The psychological factors such as anxiety, stress, depression and jealousy etc were identified as the reasons for criminality.
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Vijay R S
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