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What is criminal behaviour?

What is criminal behaviour?

Concept map linking criminal behaviour to biological, individual differences, and social psychological explanations, with examples under each.

Criminal behaviour is any action, or failure to act, that breaks the law and can be punished by the legal system. Because laws vary across time and culture, crime is partly a legal category as well as a behaviour psychologists try to explain.

Criminal behaviours: explanations Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Criminal behaviours: explanations

Step-by-step lessons on Eduqas A Level Psychology Criminal behaviours: explanations. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with the compulsory core topics before tackling the more evaluation-heavy optional and issues-and-debates content.

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