The Origin of Crime: Biological, Developmental, or Situational?

CRJ 308 Psychological Criminal Behavior

The Origins of Crime: Biological, Developmental, or Situational?

This paper will illustrate a link between Susan Smiths crimes and how the developmental aspect relates to her. Susan committed a horrific crime. The author identifies three perspective and how they play a role in influencing criminal behavior. In psychology, there are three types of perspectives which are biological, developmental, and situational, and these things can influence criminal behavior. The variety of actions or characteristics that are not typically the norm of society can be explained with biological perspectives. This can break down into two categories, Classical and positivist. There is some...