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The Psychological Mechanisms of Criminal Behavior: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis

Authors
Qihui Chen1, *
1School of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, South Korea
*Corresponding author. Email: chenqh7028@gmail.com
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Qihui Chen
Available Online 11 November 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-475-4_84How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Mental Disorders; Criminal Behavior and Motivates; Forensic Psychology; Recidivism; Psychological Assessment
Abstract

Criminal behavior is a complicated thing to understand. There are many reasons why someone might commit a crime. These reasons can be associated with an individual’s cognitive processes, physiological responses, and societal influences. This paper investigate how mental health problems, especially psychopathy, can play a role in criminal behavior. It does this by studying the neurological, cognitive, and emotional parts of crime, as well as the psychological reasons why people commit crimes. The paper also talks about how childhood problems and the environment affect antisocial behavior. The study examines the function of forensic psychological assessments, or FPAs, in the criminal justice system concurrently. It focuses on how well risk assessment tools can predict whether someone will commit another crime and the challenges they face. The study shows how important it is to use Forensic Psychology (FP) in the legal system to make sure that strategies to deal with crime work well and to improve the accuracy of predicting who will commit a crime again.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2025 10th International Conference on Modern Management, Education and Social Sciences (MMET 2025)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
11 November 2025
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978-2-38476-475-4
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-475-4_84How to use a DOI?
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© 2025 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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