Understanding psychology and crime: association between major domains of personality and crime

Abstract

Human behaviour arises from a dynamic interplay between biological, psychological, cultural and social processes. This study will be an attempt to find out the comparison between personality dimensions do delinquent and non delinquent and what are the social and familial factors that contribute to the development of criminal behaviour. Hundred delinquent boy’s and Hundred non delinquent boys will be selected through purposive sampling. Independent sample t test, Mann Whitney U test will be employed for analysis. Eysenck personality questionnaire will be administered on them.