Mental Disorder And Criminal Behavior Case Study

For many years a lot of people believed that there is a relationship between mental disorder and criminal behavior. A mental disorder truly affects a person’s behavior, mood, and thinking. A criminal behavior is an act that is done illegal. Certain people in society who have committed a criminal act can also be connected through an offender having an antisocial personality as well. When an offender has a mental illness they will perform an illegal act and that can get them arrested and put into prison or jail.
Keywords: act, illegal, personality
The Relationship between Mental Disorders and criminal behavior
Mental Disorders
A mental disorder such as pedophilia, delusional, and kleptomania are just a few mental illnesses that can cause an offender to perpetrate a crime. Mental disorders are illnesses that cannot be controlled unless a person is taking medication that is prescribed by a doctor. A study shows that a lot of Caribbean men, black men, and white British have an anger management problem. Some men will …show more content…
It can also be called Paranoia. For example a woman name Miriam Carey rammed the white house gate with her one year old daughter in the car. She was going through post partum depression and she also had schizophrenia. She believed that the FBI was watching her every move. In the end she lost her life and she put her child’s life in danger. Paranoia can make an offender believe something that is not true and the only solution to the problem can be homicide. An offender that is delusional can also have schizophrenia, also the offender could be a wife or husband; who believes their spouse is cheating on them. Someone that battles with delusions can not control their mind unless they are given a medication. This mental illness can put innocent lives at risk of death because an offender with this disorder is unable to maintain a stable