Personality Traits and Predispositions for Criminal Behavior
Session
Management, Business and Economics
Description
It is known fact that criminal behavior in most cases has the sources from personal experience and personality traits of individual. Psychological literature offers us a series of arguments and researches that find positive correlation between certain personality types and traits and tendencies for criminal behaviors. This correlation in most cases is expected and reasonable when we take in account the complex nature of the individual and sometimes the difficulty to understand why some criminal acts, as simply as they seem predictable, continue to be committed. In other side, the legal literature and practice, it mostly focuses on the nature of the crime and the punitive legal measures for the same.
The aim of this paper is through theoretical review to examine the relationship between personality traits and criminal behavior through a multidisciplinary approach by answering the questions which personality traits can give us more indications and is more predisposed to criminal behavior?
Taylor (2016), offers a balanced perspective on crime, criminal behavior and criminality, emphasizing that answering the question of why and how certain individuals are drawn towards behaving in a way that contravenes the “Law of the Land” it’s not an easy task (reported by American Psychological Association, 2023).
Another important point of view is the non-acceptance, misuse of these personality traits in front of justice. What is right and what is not in such cases? What crimes and cases are exempt from justice and what tendencies do we have to be misused?
These kind of questions requires the skills and knowledge of many experts from both psychological and legal field. Where is the red line that should not be crossed by both sides? We should not forget that personality traits are not mental states or disorders for which we believe and assume that have a different treatment and nature, both before the law and mental health experts.
Keywords:
personality traits, criminal behavior, psychological approach, legal approach
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-95-6
Location
UBT Lipjan, Kosovo
Start Date
28-10-2023 8:00 AM
End Date
29-10-2023 6:00 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2023.158
Recommended Citation
Muminovic, Haris and Ziberi, Fatime, "Personality Traits and Predispositions for Criminal Behavior" (2023). UBT International Conference. 12.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/IC/MBE/12
Personality Traits and Predispositions for Criminal Behavior
UBT Lipjan, Kosovo
It is known fact that criminal behavior in most cases has the sources from personal experience and personality traits of individual. Psychological literature offers us a series of arguments and researches that find positive correlation between certain personality types and traits and tendencies for criminal behaviors. This correlation in most cases is expected and reasonable when we take in account the complex nature of the individual and sometimes the difficulty to understand why some criminal acts, as simply as they seem predictable, continue to be committed. In other side, the legal literature and practice, it mostly focuses on the nature of the crime and the punitive legal measures for the same.
The aim of this paper is through theoretical review to examine the relationship between personality traits and criminal behavior through a multidisciplinary approach by answering the questions which personality traits can give us more indications and is more predisposed to criminal behavior?
Taylor (2016), offers a balanced perspective on crime, criminal behavior and criminality, emphasizing that answering the question of why and how certain individuals are drawn towards behaving in a way that contravenes the “Law of the Land” it’s not an easy task (reported by American Psychological Association, 2023).
Another important point of view is the non-acceptance, misuse of these personality traits in front of justice. What is right and what is not in such cases? What crimes and cases are exempt from justice and what tendencies do we have to be misused?
These kind of questions requires the skills and knowledge of many experts from both psychological and legal field. Where is the red line that should not be crossed by both sides? We should not forget that personality traits are not mental states or disorders for which we believe and assume that have a different treatment and nature, both before the law and mental health experts.