Question

For may psychologists searched for the criminal personality, a common set of characteristics associated with criminals. If you were asked to assist in this effort, what methods would you use to capture the criminal personality? Would you use objective personality inventories? If you were successful what would you do with your findings? How could this common personality profile be used in the criminal justice system?

Answer 1

Criminal Personality- Criminal personality is a kind of behaviour attribution which insist the person to cross the social dimensions and rules.

Identification- To identify any criminal personality we can use multiple type of test for instance projective methods as well as objective and subjective methods.

After the findings, Psychologist must start remedial efforts to control the criminal behaviour. Crime is a set of characteristics associated with particular action, so that we can start multiple approach of remedial therapy like behavioural therapy and psychodynamic therapies.

A common personality can be used in justice system to reduce the rate of small scale crime, to change the behaviour of criminals. The security services are also use psychologist to perform many task about rehabilitation, behaviour analysis and confirmation for criminals.