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Essay on the Relationship between Socio-Cultural Patterns and Criminal Behaviour ! The general accountability of the cultural structure of society to criminal behaviour can be summarised as follows:— 1. The socio-cultural disparities prevailing in society between rich and poor or high or low castes compel the underprivileged to resort to criminality either to escape miseries and disgrace or to satisfy [...]

Essay on Freud’s Theory of Criminal Behaviour  ! Psychopaths contend that offenders lend into criminality on account of functional deviations and mental conflicts. Sigmond Freud (1856-1939) explained mental conflicts in the personality of criminals in terms of ‘id’, ‘ego’ and ‘super ego’. He asserted that ‘Id’ generates basic biological and physiological urges and impulses in a person such as sexual [...]