On the criminal psychology of juvenile gangs —— A brief analysis of the characteristics and psychological factors of juvenile gangs' criminal behavior
Abstract: Gang crime is one of the main types of juvenile delinquency in China, and it is also a new topic in judicial practice in recent years. Juvenile gang crime is a group activity with its own characteristics and psychological factors.
[Keywords:] Teenagers; Gang crime; Behavioral characteristics; psychologic factor
In the 1970s, public security and judicial personnel made the following suggestions in view of the sharp rise of juvenile gang crimes in China at that time. Gang crime? This concept. This is often used in criminology, criminal psychology and judicial practice, but it has not yet constituted a strict criminal law term. Juvenile gang crime refers to a criminal act characterized by a loose reconciliation structure, which is jointly implemented by two or more juvenile offenders through mutual communication.
Juvenile gang crime is different from single crime. It is a joint criminal act in which many people participate and take gang action. Repeated crimes within a certain period of time are more likely to achieve the purpose of crime and achieve greater crimes? Benefit? , has the characteristics of not being good at concealment, and is more conducive to detecting criminal cases. Juvenile delinquents are easy to form gangs and have the same interests. In groups or small groups, they will be infected and influenced quickly with those who have bad behavior. They hit it off ideologically, corrected it and gradually formed a criminal gang; The gang learns from each other and imitates each other, taking the old with the little and the old with the new, which leads to the rapid development of gang crime.
Although juvenile gang crime has group cohesion, it is impulsive and unrestrained, and there is little premeditation and planning in the process of committing crimes. Often, as long as someone has an idea, an action or a sentence, they are likely to rush into a hubbub, fight, grab and grab, showing great blindness and risky behavior characteristics. In a criminal gang, members can stimulate each other and show their abilities through comparison, so that they dare to take risks and can do major or vicious cases that others don't dare to do at ordinary times. Still because? Decentralization of responsibilities? And believe it? Dude, loyalty? Psychologically speaking, individuals who participate in criminal activities can often hide their true colors, but they are not easy to be recognized or discovered and exposed, and there are fewer opportunities for punishment, so individuals in gang crimes can avoid worrying about the consequences of their actions. If members of criminal gangs act alone, some cases are impossible. In criminal gangs, individuals usually ignore themselves? Responsibility? , is often the reason to improve the risk-taking of criminal gang members.
Although juvenile gang crimes are blind, it does not mean that even robbery, rape, murder and other criminal acts are blind. Under the domination of ideology, he is bold, reckless, hard-working and ruthless, showing the characteristics of barbarism and cruelty. Some juvenile criminal gangs have a long history of committing crimes, certain criminal experience and tight internal organization. Leaders and key members are also criminals, some are recidivists, some are recidivists, and generally have deep bad habits. Long-term criminal activities have changed their psychology, and their criminal means are cruel and their behavior is barbaric. In gang crimes, they often commit vicious violence, and they often kill people. Although some are young, they have absorbed many vicious criminal methods and dared to commit major crimes, not only robbing property, but also killing people; Not only rape women, but also brutally destroy and torture them, even kill the victims and dismember them.
Juvenile delinquency is also corrosive and contagious. Some teenagers are easily influenced by crime because of their physical and psychological weaknesses, and they are also easy to learn and imitate, when there are women in juvenile gang crimes. Are they alone? Into the water? It will soon attract and corrode many people. Once some female teenagers are corrupted and deceived, not only their bodies are destroyed, but more importantly, their thoughts are poisoned, their ethics and morals are decadent, and their life style is decadent and out of control. After their depravity, they often cheat other teenagers, * * * property or organize prostitution, which is corrosive and contagious and extremely harmful to society.
There are many psychological factors in juvenile gang crime. Once a criminal gang is formed, it will have a sense of belonging in the psychology of gang members. This group consciousness also means that individuals belong to a gang and voluntarily act according to the will of the gang. On the one hand, they reduce and lose their original ability of analysis and judgment, and reject ideas that contradict the will of the gang, especially those orthodox family and social education; On the other hand, the cohesion of gangs has been greatly enhanced, and gang members have a more and more unified understanding of their own interests, concepts, values and behaviors. This is a kind of psychological pressure on gang members, which makes it difficult for gang members to disobey the gang psychologically. Even if this member has his own opinion on a criminal motion, he may give up his original opinion and obey the gang action under the pressure of group consciousness.
In gang criminal activities, the ringleaders and other principals of criminal gangs are often those who have the most? Ability? People are in an authoritative position. Once the authority figure is determined, it will have great appeal, and the general members will automatically give up their independent will and unconditionally accept the authority's command. In gang crimes, because of the interests of each member, there is often a desire to unite and obey, which has a kind of interest for criminal gangs. Responsibility? And then what? Responsibility? This obedience to authority not only makes every member absolutely obey the ringleaders and other principals of criminal gangs, but also dares to take risks and sometimes even sacrifice in criminal activities? Sacrifice yourself? Protecting the leaders of criminal gangs.
There is a common emotional resonance effect in gang crimes. The sympathetic effect of emotion can not only stimulate the criminal impulse of those who have not yet formed a criminal motive, but also worsen the criminal psychological structure of those who have formed a criminal motive. For example, after the spectators in the stands of a football field form a fanaticism, as long as one person stomps on the court or throws a soda bottle, it will cause the same reaction from the excited crowd. Therefore, the sympathetic effect of emotions will lead to the consistency of behavioral motives and behavioral goals in gangs. The emotional resonance effect in gang crime will greatly enhance the harmfulness of gang crime and lead to the multiplication effect of gang crime.
In the bad atmosphere of criminal gangs, gang members' strong desire to show themselves often expands abnormally. On the one hand, their desire to show themselves is extremely strong. If they don't show their existence at a certain time and place, their psychology will be unbalanced. On the other hand, the content displayed is mostly ugly, primitive and barbaric, not conscience. Therefore, the extreme expansion of individuals' desire to show themselves in criminal gangs often leads them to do extremely destructive things, such as showing them in front of women.
I am masculine, but I make trouble and fight. There is abnormal self-display psychology among members of criminal gangs, which makes the means and quantity of crimes compare with each other and causes the vicious development of criminal psychology.
Teenagers can't effectively deal with the contradictions and setbacks faced by adolescence, so they are prone to negative psychology such as disappointment and pessimism, and then have a strong demand for compensation and compensation. In criminal gangs, members depend on each other and influence each other, which is easy to meet each other's psychological needs for remuneration and lay a psychological and emotional foundation for the consolidation and development of criminal gangs. When the gang crime is defeated or attacked, the psychological compensation among the members is not satisfied, and the criminals may retaliate even more crazily, or infringe on the innocent objects, so as to seek vent psychology? Compensation? .
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[Author] Cai, Xianning Vocational and Technical College.
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