Week 4

• Criminal Behavior


  • Refers to conduct of an offender that leads to and including the commission of an unlawful act
  • Refers to behavior which is criminal in nature; behavior that violates the law
• Elements necessary for human behavior to be considered a crime

  • Legally prohibited by law
  • Materially executed or realized
  • Spiritually accompanied by criminal intention or guilt
• Origin of Criminal Behavior


  • Biological Factor
  • Personality Disorder Factor
  • Learning Factor
  • Biological Approach
  • Humanistic Approach
  • Behavioral/Social Learning Approach
  • Cognitive Approach
• M'Naghten Rule is a test applied to determine whether a person accused of a crime was sane at the time of its commission and criminally responsible for the wrongdoing
• Human Intelligence


  • Mental quality consisting of abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate
• Stanford-Binet Fifth Edition (SB5) classification


  • IQ Range ("deviation IQ")
  • IQ Classification
• IQ classification

  • 145-160: Very gifted or highly advanced
  • 130-144: Gifted or very advanced
  • 120-129: Superior
  • 110-119: High average
  • 90-109: Average
  • 80-89: Low average
  • 70-79: Borderline impaired or delayed
  • 55-69: Mildly impaired or delayed
  • 40-54: Moderately impaired or delayed
• M'Naghten Rule is a test for criminal insanity
• M'Naghten Rule


  A test applied to determine whether a person accused of a crime was sane at the time of its commission and criminally responsible for the wrongdoing
• The M'Naghten rule is a test for criminal insanity
• Under the M'Naghten rule


  A criminal defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity if, at the time of the alleged criminal act, the defendant was so deranged that she did not know the nature or quality of her actions or, if she knew the nature and quality of her actions, she was so deranged that she did not know that what she was doing was wrong
• The Durham Rule states that a criminal defendant can't be convicted of a crime if the act was the result of a mental disease or defect the defendant had at the time of the incident
• The Durham Rule is also known as the "product defect rule" and doesn't require a medical diagnosis of mental illness or disorder
• The Durham Rule was adopted by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1954
• The ALI "Substantial Capacity" Test is established by the American Law Institute Model Penal Code
• The ALI test provides that a defendant would not be criminally responsible for conduct if "as a result of mental disease or defect, he lacked substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law"
• Article 12 of the Revised Penal Code exempts an insane person from criminal liability, except if the person "acted during a lucid interval"
• The Revised Penal Code contains the general penal laws of the Philippines and was first enacted in 1930
• Republic Act 9344, known as the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006, raised the criminal exemption age from 9 to 15 years old