Psychological Theory Of Crime Essay

Crime can be describe as classification of behavior defined by people who has power and the authority to make the laws which will identify some behavior as offensive and the offender can be punished. Crime is more to violation of crime, and it is harmful either physically or psychologically. Examples of crimes are bribery, murder or robbery. Deviance can be define as an abnormal behavior or morally offensive and threatening. It is a wide term used to refer to a behavior which violates the social norms of the society which cannot be accepted by a number of people in a community, in example, a man with a full body tattoo. However, not all deviance is a criminal behavior and not all crime is deviant. Thus, the purpose of this case study is to

As the Justice Helen Wilson told the court, the “pain and resentment” also led to Patel’s decision to murder. We can see that Patel was emotionally unstable, because she was full with anger, jealousy, vengeance, hatred or to be precise she felt betrayed and hurt, thus she wanted to stop the feelings and she decide to kill the cause of all the negative feelings she had. Purvi Joshi may had been the cause of all the unwanted feelings, thus she thought it would be a good decision to kill Purvi. In this context, we can apply the psychological theory. Psychological theory focus on defining then identifying and classifying behavioral abnormalities and personality disorders. The dominant perception of abnormality can be any behavior or feelings which are uncommon at the limits of the normal curve. Based on the Freudian theory by Sigmund Freud, the unconscious or inner feeling can explains behavior. Thus, the inner feelings of Manisha Patel might cause her to murder Purvi

The normative theory often classify different types of deviance, and they also try to identify the factors which leads to the deviant actions, in example, psychological, economic, social or environmental. In the case I chosen, the factors of deviant act of Manisha Patel might be based on psychological and social factors. Thus the way to overcome or solve this case, Durkheim had identified two types of sanctions, which are; repressive sanctions, which the aim is to punish the offender, and restitutive sanctions which would not bring any harm or suffering to the offenders, but it try to repair the disturbed bond and bring it back to the normal form. However, the most suitable one for Manisha Patel is the restitutive sanctions, because she seems to have problem with her personality and psychology. This can be proven by the way she denied that she murdered Joshi, and the way she decide to stab her own self to prove that she is not