Application Of Psychological Theory Of Criminology In Cases Of Heinous Crime Against Women In India: With Special Reference To Psychodynamic Theory
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Dr. Gitu Singh, Xavier Law School, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata
ABSTRACT
Crime is a part of society, so are criminals. Finding an exact and all applicable reason for the cause of crime and criminal behavior has been and will remain a difficult task. Yet one may agree that society and social ecology plays a major role in determining the reasons behind crime and criminal behavior. Social factors contributing to commission of crime cannot be put within closed brackets, as with the development and changing nature of society these factors would also keep expanding and be subject to alteration. Discussion concerning the causation of crime needs a contemplation of psychological theories especially in cases of heinous, brutal, gruesome and oblivion crime against women. The few gruesome criminal case for crime against women for e.g. The Tandoor Case, The Ntihari case, the Nirbhaya Rape Case, and more recently the RG Kar rape case, forces an individual to question the psychology of the offender or suspect as the case may be.
The first question which comes to the mind of an individual who becomes aware of the brutality, inhuman treatment and insensitivity of such crime, is the psychology of the offender. The pertinent question which needs deliberation is, how far the Court considers the psychology of the accused while determining liability and imposing punishment. Do the theories propounded by criminologist of the psychological school play an influencing and assistive role in determining the criminal liability or punishment? Are the theories propounded by criminologist of psychological school of any use in the Indian Criminal Justice System?
This research is an attempt to find out the answers to the above question. This paper would analyze the role psychological theories of criminology play, in influencing the decision of the courts in cases of brutal, gruesome and rarest or rare case of crime against women.
Keywords: Crime, Criminology, Causation, Psychological School, Liability.
