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The Emotional Brain and the Guilty Mind

MA1, Student, Mehr Chand Mahajan Dav College for Women, Chandigarh

"Crime is not a thing to be appreciated; it is an act strongly criticizedby society". It is believed that no one is born a criminal, a condition that compels them to be. Crime is a stage created by law. Human criminal behavior results from a variety of social, biological, psychological, and economic factors. The criminal mind is naturally aggressive, easily distracted and acts on these traits. A criminal is a person who is guilty of a crime. Criminals have no sympathy for the lousy price system. Their minds see themselves as invincible, which attracts lies, deception as a way of life. They want quick results without effort. Family circumstances, peer pressure also play a role in their criminal behaviour. Socially, a crime includes deviant behaviour which violates social norms that define expected behaviour. This paper seeks to understand how social, political, psychological, and economic changes can change the criminal thinking process.

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