The research object of narrow criminal psychology is the psychology and behavior of the criminal subject, that is to say, criminal psychology and criminal behavior are its research objects. Criminal psychology refers to the sum of various psychological characteristics in the process of controlling criminals to commit crimes, such as criminal motivation, criminal personality, criminal thinking mode, anti-social values and so on.
Criminal behavior refers to the behavior that endangers the society and violates the criminal law and should be punished under the control of certain criminal psychology. Criminal psychology and criminal behavior are different from each other and have their own characteristics.
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Although criminal psychology is a theoretical discipline, it is also a practical and applied discipline. The research of criminal psychology is mainly to solve the problems related to criminal behavior in judicial practice. ?
The research on the formation and development of criminals' criminal psychology provides scientific basis and methods for judicial practice departments to discover, crack down, expose and prevent crimes, improves the professional ability of judicial practitioners, and improves the quality and efficiency of handling cases in filing, investigation, prosecution, trial and correction.
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