psychological

• CAUSE OF CRIME: PSYCHOLOGICAL

  • Person may commit a crime due to a severe mental health issue that prevents them from realising what they are doing at the time
  • mental illness, failure in development in their life, exposure to negative behaviour, inherited traits
• MORAL ISSUES: PSYCHOLOGICAL

  • Whether the person can be held responsible for their actions when they may not have been in control of their behaviour
  • When sentencing since these crimes were not premeditated and therefore punishing them as a form of deterrence would be ineffective
• MORAL ISSUES: PSYCHOLOGICAL

  • Treatment of prisoners with mental health issues and their treatment in prison and the effect that prison may have on them
  • Reasons for crimes where we may feel sympathy and understanding for the offender, for example if someone is suffering from domestic abuse and then hurts their abuser
• CHRISTIAN VIEW: PSYCHOLOGICAL

  • Praying for someone to get better
  • Suggests that they view those with mental issues as no more and no less evil in the eye of the God of the Bible