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Socio-cultural Perspective of Criminal Behaviour

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           Beula Elizabeth Padankatti 1 830231 6 CEP - B   FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY CIA - 1  Socio-cultural Perspective of Criminal Behaviour   Looking through the lens of Ted Bundy: The Criminal Mastermind   The socio-cultural perspective of psychology deals with analysing circumstances surrounding individuals and their impacts on their behaviors or the changes that are affected specifically by their surroundings, social and cultural factors. The sociological or socio-cultural model provides a macro-level analysis of criminal violence. This model examines criminal violence in terms of socially structured inequality, and social and cultural attitudes and norms regarding anti-social behaviour and interpersonal relations. Socio-cultural perspective explores the different external societal factors and influences that may contribute towards deviance. The first step towards understanding what deviance constitutes is by defining it as any act that violates social norms and these stipulated norms
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Cognitive Perspective of Criminal Behaviour

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In order to understand the way an individual's behaviour is directed by their thinking, one must look at all factors throughout their lifespan that could shape their thinking and thought processes.  His early life suggests that his grandfather was an extremely violent person who approved of violence with humans and animals. Ted developed a liking towards knives at a very young age and would often be found near his sleeping aunt, holding the knife, smiling down upon her. This shows that his thinking, from childhood, was shaped to be violent and aggressive, and he grew up with the same thinking which led him to his addiction of pornography as a teenager. He enjoyed shoplifting as it gave him the satisfaction of being above authority.  During his adolescence when he found out that his biological mother was actually pretending to be his 'sister', he lost all self-esteem and a sense of identity. He became determined to prove to his mother that he was extraordinary and wanted to
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Introduction to The Case

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About Ted Bundy Courtesy of Jerry Gay (1977). Ted Bundy photograph. Licensed under CNN on thedailyworld.com Theodore Robert Bundy, infamously known as Ted Bundy, is an American serial killer, rapist and necrophiliac from the 20th century. He confessed to murdering 36 young women in seven states between 1974 and 1978. Since there’s no evidence for the exact number of victims, experts believe that the actual tally may outnumber 100. Bundy was known to be an intellectual with a charming personality but had an unemotional demeanor that lacked empathy. He lured victims by appealing to their emotions or impersonating authority, then kidnapped them to secluded locations. He used to groom, decapitate and perform sexual acts with the corpses until putrefaction. After getting caught, he escaped prison twice until he was put to death on the electric chair in 1989. He was a psychopathic predator and it was depicted by his indifference and objectification towards women. Childhood Theodore Bundy sta
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Biological Perspective of Criminal Behaviour

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Confessing to the murder of 36 young women from 1974 to 1978, America’s romanticized yet terrorizing serial killer and rapist was put to death on the electric chair in 1979. Theodore Robert Bundy, notoriously known as Ted Bundy, is believed to have murdered more than 100 women in seven states from Washington to Florida. He lured women by feigning injury or impersonating authority in public places. Appealing to their empathetic side, he kidnapped them to secluded regions where he raped, tortured and killed them until putrefaction. His death was cheered on by citizens after he previously escaped prison twice. But what makes this case interesting? No one around suspected him due to his appeared intellectual and kind personality. Even if he matched the said description perfectly, it didn’t seem believable to those around him due to his natural unemotional demeanor and societal acts. In this blog, we are going to delve into the biological causes of Ted Bundy’s actions by analyzing his child
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Psychodynamic Perspective of Criminal Behaviour

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At the crux of the psychodynamic theory is the belief that human behavior can largely be explained and understood through unconscious processes- thoughts, feelings and forces outside of one’s awareness. This deterministic theory believes that interpersonal and intrapsychic experiences during one’s childhood forms the basis for future development (Deal, 2007). Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and Klein’s Object Relations theory will be used to understand Ted Bundy. According to Freud there are three parts to the human personality- id, ego and super ego. Id is the personality component that seeks to satisfy one’s urges and is made up of unconscious psychic energy called libido primarily because of the nature of its content. Operating on the pleasure principle it has two major instincts – Eros (life instinct) and Thanatos (death instinct). During infancy stage, the ego develops from the id. The ego operates on reality principle and tries to satisfy the needs of id in a socially acceptable ma
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Behavioristic Perspective of Criminal Behavior

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  The behavioristic perspective differs from the other types of perspectives as it solely focuses on observable behaviors rather than on emphasizing the internal states of an individual. It is concerned with how behaviors are learned and reinforced, how stimuli which are the environmental factors affect the observable behavior which people learn from, and therefore, proposes two processes classical conditioning and operant conditioning. This perspective seeks to have a better explanation of the physiological needs of any living organism, and how motivation can impact behavior.  We can further look into the infamous serial killer, Ted Bundy’s criminal behavior using this perspective.                          Ted Bundy's grandparents                                                      Young Ted                                                 Ted Bundy is very well known for his infamous ways of murdering by raping, strangling, and necrophilia of his victims. Upon observing his beha
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