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Criminal and personality

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Jun 10, 2009
by: bmong
I'm now thinking about my topic, personality. I found it more interesting for me because it closely related to our lives. And it reminds me of some experiences which happened to me before. It is helpful if people study more about people's personality, because it always helps when we know more about ourselves and people around us. 
 
I'm learning more about personality right now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is: How does people's personality related to criminal? As I was reading in my Google Reader, a blog post, http://www.termpapers-termpapers.com/dbs/c5/lfm109.shtml,  caught my attention because it basically talking about relationship between personality and criminal. The writer said that people want to know what makes criminal a criminal, we should first understand their personality. It is because personality is what make a person. I agree with this statement so it attracted me to continue reading the post. 
 
The quote I chose here is saying that, a person is a lot like a clock, to really know how it works you have to take apart and put all the pieces together one by one. And even though a person is not at all like a clock, in order to figure out how one's mind works and why they do what they do what must pick it apart and examine all the parts.

I think this is descriptive because I also agreed that everything has a combination including human beings. In order to understand how a person acts, we should analyze the person's personality. According to the California Psychological Inventory, Hans J. Eysenck spent years defining whether criminal behavior had any relationship with personality. He divided criminal personality into three parts, which is Psychoticism, Neuroticism, and Extroversion. Psychoticism, which describes people as being aggressive, egocentric, and impulsive. Neuroticism describes people with low self-esteem, anxiety, and wide mood swings. The final one is Extroversion, which describes the personality of an individual who is sensation seeking, dominant, and assertive. These personality type traits are found in criminal. That's why people is like a clock. There should be a reason of a person doing something. And this research from Hans J. Eysenck has explained that personality is related to criminal.

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As what I learned in the previous research, I knew more about criminal and personality. In the article, the writer mentioned Han J. Eysenck. However, How does the theory of Hans J. Eysenck analyze criminal by personality? I want to know more about him so as I was reading in my Google Reader, http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/lofiversion/index.php/t11377.html,  caught my attention because it listed most of the information about Hans J. Eysenck. And how did his theory develop.

The quote I chose here is basically saying, "I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts."

It is a quote from Hans J. Eysenck. I think this statement totally explained Eysenck's attitude. I agreed with his quote because if something people think that they must be true, supposing they are wrong, no one would discover the real truth. The major strength of Eysenck's model was to provide detailed theory of the causes of personality. His three factor model of personality is a model that makes use of five traits Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The big five theory is similar to Eysenck's traits, however, Eysenck didn't agree with the address of penness to experience. There are lots of reference of Eysenck's theory and we can learn more about personality not only criminal personality through his theory.

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I'm learning more about criminal personality right now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is: How does criminal personality theory use in our daily lives? As I was reading in my Google Reader, a magazine article, "Forensic Criminal Personality Profiling: Inside the Minds of Madmen", http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/122594/forensic_criminal_personality_profiling.html?cat=17, caught my attention because this article talks about forensic psychology and how people know criminal personality can help knowing forensic criminal.

The quote I chose here is basically saying criminal personality profiling can be extremely helpful in allowing investigators to narrow their research for a suspect, especially when physical evidence and other leads are scarce.

I strongly agreed with this quote as there always not enough evidence to solve a criminal, but because of criminal personality profile, people can narrow their research. Nowadays, many cases have demonstrated the value of a criminal profile to help eliminate suspects and shine the spotlight on others. One of the most successful and accurate criminal profiles ever created was used in the "New York City Mad Bomber" investigation. Profiling is accurate because many times after a suspect becomes emotionally affected by a crime they have committed, their frustrations or worries begin to surface in their everyday lives and may startle their family, friends, and associates. By circulating a profile, law enforcement agencies are essentially enlisting unpaid investigators who can contact them if they begin to notice anyone around them acting out of the ordinary or otherwise fitting the profile description. In these ways, criminal personality profiles assist investigators with solving crime scenes and identifying perpetrators. These are statements why I agreed with the quote.
 

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Hapis Çocukları / Jail Children by Kuzeytac (Away).


This image is from Kuzeytac, "http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuzeytac/3484168920/". This photo impressed me of my topic - personality and criminal. It is about a baby in a gate, and it reminds me of the prison. Maybe it's a bit too serious, but what I think is that if a person is born with a criminal personality, it is poor as personality is a hard thing to change. Although babies are pure and lovely, they have a destiny to get into crime, and becoming not pure anymore. The picture indicated people who have inborn criminal psyche.