사이코패스의 범죄충동과 통제이론- 사이코패스의 특이성과 통제이론적 접근의 한계
Control Theory and Psychopath
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초록
Today, Psychopath is well known to our society for its sensational crimes, for example, its horrible serial killing without mercy. Generally psychopath is different from psycho, because the former could know the meaning and result of his own behaviour, so to speak, the right and wrong unlikely to the latter. So most people think that psychopath criminals should be sentenced to imprisonment or death penalty just as non-psychopath criminals. Moreover, they argue that the psychopath repeat offender should be punished gravely. But is it right treatment that psychopath should be punished gravely or samely just as non-psychopath criminals? Generally, psychopath has no self-control ability to suppress the impulse to crime. At this point, the Control Theory which sets forth as a premise that all men could commit a crime and the absence of self-control ability to suppress the impulse to crime is the cause of crime, might explain the mechanism of committing a crime of psychopath. But this essay argues that the Control Theory cannot apply to psychopath directly because it was designed to explain cause of committing or suppressing a crime of non-psychopathic, namely normal criminal. There are so may Control Theories such as Abert J. Reiss's control theory, Ivan Nye's social control theory, Walter Reckless's containment theory, David Matza's neutalization theory and drift theory, Travis Hirshci's social control theory, and general theory of crime, etc. Among them, Abert J. Reiss's control theory and Ivan Nye's social control theory could not apply to psychopath, their premise that social control can suppress the impulse to crime is not applicable to psychopath, because psychopath has no conscience to internalize the social rules. Also the Walter Reckless's containment theory, Travis Hirshci's social control theory, and general theory of crime are not applicable to psychopath because, they focus on social bonds and family's attachment as causes of suppressing the impulse to crime, but psychopath has been proved to be free from the elements of social bonds. In conclusion, different ways of criminal policy should be set up, for psychopath is different from other normal non-psycopathic criminals in personality.