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Essay on the Main Characteristics of Organised Criminals  ! Some of the characteristic features of organised criminals who are associated with various types of organised crimes deserve particular mention. The sense of unity and solidarity among these criminals is perhaps the root cause of their success in their criminal ventures. It is primarily for this […]

Short Essay on Intelligence Testing and Crime ! One of the distinguished French psychologists Alfred Binet (1857-1911) carried out experiments in psychological laboratory on the persisting problem of retardation due to individual differences and introduced the concept of ‘Mental Age’ and ‘Intelligence Quotient’ (IQ) and its influence on criminal behaviour. (more…)

Essay on the Relationship Between Heredity and Crime ! Lombrosian anthropologists through their biological and anthropological researches succeeded in establishing a correlation between heredity of the criminal and his criminogenic tendencies. The psychiatrists, on the other hand, located crime in mental depravity of the criminals. The psychologists explained crime in terms of personality deviations. (more…)