Criminal Psychology and Criminal Sociology

Unit 1 — Crime, Criminal and Criminology:

1. What is crime? Who is the criminal? · 2. What is Criminology? · 3. Schools of Criminology - · a) The Pre-Classical School · b) The Classical School · c) Neo-Classical School · 4. Positivist Approach - Radical Positivism and Liberal Positivism · a) Cesare Lombroso · b) Enrico Ferri · c) Raffaele Garofalo · d) Gabrial Tarde

• Nature and scope — Crime and Criminology
• The Schools of Criminology Pre-classical School of Criminology The Classical School Neo-classical school Positive School Cartographic School Clinical School of Criminology Sociological School of Criminology Socialist School of Criminology

Unit 2 — Psychology and Crime:

1. Meaning, purpose and scope of criminal psychology · 2. Psychological vs. Psycho - analytical approach to crime · 3. Behaviourist approach to crime · 4. Definition of criminal Behaviour - Psychodynamics of criminal Behaviour. · 5. Mental illness and crime · 6. Human aggression and violence to crime

• Causes of Criminal Behaviors Heredity and Crime Bio-physical factors and criminality

Unit 3 — Psychometric Test - Its use in Criminal Behaviour:

1. Measurement of criminal Behaviour - Psychological test to measure criminal Behaviour · 2. Criminal profiling: Definition and process of profiling criminal personality · 3. Factors underling criminal profiling · 4. Merit and demerit of criminal profiling

Unit 4 — Forensic Psychology - Concept and Importance:

1. Definition, meaning and scope of forensic psychology · 2. Historical background of forensic psychology in India and abroad · 3. Role of forensic psychology in the investigation of crime · 4. Psychology and the police · 5. Application of psychology in court · 6. Application of psychology in prison

Unit 5 — Sociological Theories - Crime and Social Structure:

1. Social structure theory · 2. Social disorganization theory · 3. Merton, anomie and strain

Unit 6 — Subcultural Theories:

1. Cohen’s theory of the delinquent subculture · 2. Miller’s lower-class gang delinquency

Unit 7 — Crime and Social Process:

1. Socialization and Crime - Differential association theory · 2. Differential reinforcement theory · 3. Neutralization and rift theory · 4. Hirsch’s Social Control or Social Bond Theory · 5. Becker’s Labelling theory · 6. Self-Control and Self Esteem as related to crime