Study on Social Psychological Factors of Property and Violent Criminals -- Based on the Investigation and Analysis of Criminals in City A

DOI

10.2991/hssmee-18.2018.25How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Violent crime, Property crime, Risk factors, Inventory survey.

Abstract

Objective: to explore the social psychological factors of violent crime and property crime, so as to provide a basis for effective crime prevention. Methods: 51 criminals qualified for violent crimes and 52 criminals qualified for property crimes were selected in the jail of city A. Meanwhile, according to the matching principle of age, gender and violent crime group, 50 cases of non-criminal persons without criminal experience were selected as the control group. Childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ), social support revalued scale (SSRS), Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ) and family assessment device (FAD) were used for the measurement. Results: the scores of emotional abuses, sexual abuse, physical neglect of CTQ, psychoticism and neuroticism of EPQ, FAD communication and the overall function in the violent crime group were all higher than those in the property crime group and the control group [for example, emotional abuse score: (8. 9 ± 0. 4) vs. (6. 7 ± 0. 3), (6. 2 ± 0. 5), all P< 0. 05. The score of objective support of SSRS was lower than that of the property crime group and the control group (P < 0.05). The overall scores of emotional neglect of CTQ, neuroticism, introversion and extroversion of EPQ, FAD problem solving in the property crime group were all higher than those in the control group (all P < 0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that emotional abuse of CTQ, psychoticism, neuroticism, introversion and extroversion of EPQ, and overall family function of FAD are the risk factors for violent crime (OR = 1.43, 1.06, 1.42, 8.57, 140.60). Emotional neglect of CTQ, neuroticism, introversion and extroversion of EPQ, FAD problem solving function are the risk factors for property crime (OR = 1.48, 1.05, 1.12, 11.16). Conclusion: violent crime and property crime may be related to childhood trauma experience, personality traits and family dysfunction.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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