Psycho-Social Factors Influencing Criminal Behaviour

Author(s): Sujeet Kumar

Abstract:

An attempt was to make to compare the criminal and non-criminal respondent in terms of some psychological factors. The psychological factors were shyness, anxiety, aggression and stress. The social factors are social support, SES, family pathology and substance/alcohol addiction. For the purpose 100 subjects (50 criminals and 50 non-criminals) constituted sample. Akhtar’s Shyness Scale, Sinha’s Manifest Anxiety Scale, Singh’s MAS, SPSSI, Social Support Scale by Asthana and Verma and Family Pathology Scale by shyness, anxiety, aggression and stress were used to measure shyness, anxiety, aggression, stress, social support and family pathology respectively. Besides these a PDS was used to seek the necessary information about criminal and non-criminal subjects including their SES and addict behaviour. The subjects were interviewed and administered the scales as per their convenience and obtained data were analysed using chi-square test. The significant chi-square revealed the fact that criminals were found with higher degree of shyness, anxiety, aggression and stress respectively. Further, criminals were found with having poor social support, poor SES, pathological family relationship and habitual substance user/alcoholics. So, it is concluded that psycho-social factors under investigation are significant contributor to criminal behaviour.

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