Abstract

AGUILERA TORRADO, Armando. Psychoanalytical explanation of the criminal act. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2010, vol.52, n.1, pp.333-348. ISSN 1794-3108.

A theoretical analysis is offered from the psychological explanations of human conduct having been exposed, particularly regarding the criminal act. Starting from the epistemological conceptions on which criminology relies in its pretentious intentions to explain the genesis of criminal behavior, in order to locate from there the explicative vacuums that these approaches offer at the time of attempting to give a causal explanation to genesis and criminal conduct. Unconscious motivation is placed as a work hypothesis as the cause of criminal behavior, understood as a psychic causality.

Keywords : Psychological theories; criminology; antisocial conduct; psychoanalysis; criminal behavior.

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