CRIMINOGENICS

PMSg Mario V. Mondero, Jr

Lecturer
 LESSON GOAL
• This lesson aims to enlighten the Police
trainees on the different characteristics and
behavioural patterns of criminals.
 LESSON OBJECTIVES
• At the end of this lesson, the Police trainees
should be able to:
• 1. Learn why criminals commit crime;
• 2. Differentiate the behavioural patterns of
criminals; and
• 3. Adopt the activities done by the PNP in
order to prevent or deter crimes.
 LESSON MANUSCRIPT
(CRIMINOGENICS)
1. Psychology (Psychological Criminology) – the science of
behavior and mental processes of the criminal.
 
2. Behaviour as Maladaptive – the effect of a well being of the
individual and or the social group.
 
3. Why do people commit crime?
 
4. Several psychological factors that figure into why people
commit crimes.
a. General. The spiritual equipment of Man.
 
1) The natural urges or instinct.
a. The nutritive urge (hunger).
b. The sexual urge.
c. The herd instinct (gregarious).
d. The activity urge.
e. The self-assertion urge
 b. Temperament
c. Feeling or Emotion
d. The will
e. The mind or intellect
f. Character
 
2) Self Concept
3) Stress
4) Aggression
5. Depression
6) Mental Aberrations
7) Personality Disorders
Most common type of mental illness that will lead to
crime:
a. Psychosis – insanity
b. Neurosis – mild insanity
c. Paranoid Reaction – chronic mental illness.
d. Schizophrenic – mental illness characterized by
delusions, hallucinations, and
general mental regression.
e. Sexual Deviation – abnormal sexual behavior
f. Compulsions – irresistible urge impulse.
g. Psychopath – anti-social personality. 
Psychological classification of criminals:

a. Passion Criminals
b. Algolagnic Criminals
c. Environment Thwarted Criminals
d. Sex Perverts
e. Neurotic Criminals
f. Psychotic criminals
g. Psychopathic criminals
h. Paranoid criminals
i. Compulsive criminals
j. Organic criminal
THE ANATOMY OF CRIME
 
1. Anatomy of crime

a. Motive
b. Instrumentally
c. Opportunity

2. Breeding ground of crime

a. Exogenous Variables
b. Indigenous Variables
1. Poverty
2. Ignorance
3. Injustices/Abuses
4. Soft state
5. Fear
6. Lost family values
7. others
3. Efforts/activities by the PNP
against crime:
a. Crime Prevention
b. Crime suppression
c. Crime intervention
d. Crime Atrrition
e. Crime Deterrence
• CRIME PREVENTION – involves any activity by
an individual or group, public or private, which
attempts to eliminate crime prior to it
occurring or before any additional activity
results.

• CRIME SUPPRESSION – tactics include directed

enforcement to identify and arrest suspects,
or conducting surveillance of crime suspects
or in areas where trends are occurring.
• CRIME ATTRITION – refers to the gap
between levels of known crime and the
response of the criminal justice system in
terms of prosecution, conviction and
sentencing.

• CRIME DETERRENCE – in relation to

criminal offending is the idea or theory that
the threat of punishment will deter people
from committing and reduce the probability
and/or level of offending in society.
 INTRODUCTION TO CRIME MAPPING
 
1. Map is a visual presentation of an area – a
symbolic depiction highlighting relationship
between elements of the space such as objects,
regions and themes.
Standard Learning Package Form B (SLP Form B)

2. Crime Mapping is the process of using a

geographic information System (GIS) to conduct
spatial analysis of crime problems and other
police related issues.
3. Three main functions of crime mapping:
4. Usefulness of crime mapping.
5. Application of crime mapping
6. Crime analysis
7. Geographic features:

a. Point features.
b. Line features.
c. polygon features.
d. Image features.
8. Types of crime mapping;

a. Manual Pin Mapping

b. Computer Mapping
c. Geographic Information System (GIS)
d. Single-symbol Maps
e. Buffer
f. Graduated Maps
g. Pie Chart Maps
h. Bar Chart Maps
i. Density Maps
 9. Hot Spots
 
10. Obstacles to effective computerized crime mapping.
 
STREET CRIME
 
1. Street Crime is a loose term for any criminal offense in a public
place.

2. Type of Street Crime:

a. Pickpocketing
b. Open illegal drug trade
c. creation of graffiti vandalism of public property
d. Assaults
e. Theft
f. Robbery
g. Others
CRIME CLOCKING 
1. Crime Clock represent the annual
ratio of crime to fixed time intervals.
2. The average time interval: 
This is obtained by dividing the total
time elapsed during a year (365 days*24
hours*60 minutes*60 seconds =
31,536,000 seconds or 525,600 minutes
or 8,760 hours) by the total number of
crimes reported to police during a year.