Psychological Factors In Criminality

Psychological factors in criminality relate to genetic and constitutional causes and to personality and other sources of individual differences . Such factors have often been misunderstood, and even more frequently misinterpreted, in the context of crime and crime prevention.

To say, as we shall do as a result of a very extensive body of evidence, that genetic factors are powerfully involved in criminal activity, is not the equivalent of saying that "crime is destiny" and that for a given person such behavior may be predestined and inevitable.