Criminal psychology

Criminal psychology is concerned with the question of the psychological situation of an offender for crimes committed and is sub-discipline of forensic psychology as criminology.

In the Kriminalbiologie

Criminal psychology applies within criminology as part of the field of criminal biology that deals with the crime causes existing in the perpetrator himself because of his physical and mental assessments. The criminal psychology has the task to identify existing at the time of the offense the offender's mental state under reflections of the direct tatum imaging periods and the overall personality of the offender. This involves, among other issues in the determination of criminal culpability as exaggerated anxiety ( as in a self-defense excess ), anger and emotional blockages, multiple reactions. Abnormal mental and physical states can exist simultaneously, in these cases there is an overlap of Kriminalsomatologie with the criminal psychology.

In psychology,

In psychology, the concept of criminal psychology is most often used as a synonym for the Forensic Psychology, then Criminal psychology is a branch of forensic psychology and belongs to applied psychology. However, the systematic concept mapping, and the relation between the concepts Forensic Psychology, Forensic Psychology and Law Psychology in the literature is described not uniform; partially the Criminal psychology is called in addition to the legal psychology as a branch of forensic psychology, in part, the criminal psychology and forensic psychology as part of legal psychology.

As a synonym for police psychology is imputable to the field of criminology and also belongs to applied psychology. As a theory supplier for etiological explanations crime the criminal psychology is seen as a reference science of criminology.

• Criminal psychology
• Forensic Psychology