What is the mentality of the offenders?

What is the psychology of people who commit crime?

Every human behavior is done to serve a certain important psychological goal including the crimes people commit. What seems irrational from the outside like a crime is actually an attempt to do something completely rational like reaching a certain psychological goal. For example if a child felt inferior during his childhood then there is a big possibility that he will strive for superiority as an adult.

If that child didn't manage to achieve his goal using the normal ways such as academic or financial success, he might decide to become superior by being dangerous or in other words by becoming a criminal.  They are trying to achieve psychological balance through a short cut because they didn't manage to go through the normal way. This interpretation of the psychology of people who commit crime is not yet complete because not every person who fails to achieve his goals turn into a criminal but only those who lack social interest.

Social interest is developed as a result of correct parenting and as a result of being raised in a healthy house where both the father and the mother are loving and cooperative. Children who don't learn how to cooperate and who fail to develop social interests are at high risk of becoming criminals provided that they failed to achieve their psychological balance using the socially acceptable methods.

The goal of achieving superiority is among the most popular psychological reasons that motivates many people to commit crimes. The criminal usually attacks weak victims who are unarmed in order to be in control and to feel superior.

What is the public reaction?

Nisha Chandramohan

  MIC and Lanchang assemblyman Datuk Mohd Sharkar Shamsuddin also giving help to this cases.MIC have offered a RM10,000 reward to anyone providing information which could lead to Nisha's recovery.

  The wide publicity by the media and assistance from RHB Group,that is staff of the RHB Bank branch in Mentakab had together to play their part by distributing posters and leaflets to members of the public.Mentakab branch personnel had distributed 700 posters and leaflets at public locations such as shopping malls and major public transport hubs and stations, and do neighboring towns.

The events of the disappearances ...

Nisha Chandramohan

Nisha Chandramohan, 2 years old, was last seen on June 4, 2010. She was taken for a walk by her mentally ill aunt from her grandmother's Mentakab home in the state of Pahang, Malaysia.

Nisha has suffered from epilepsy since she was a five-month-old baby and she needs to receive daily medication. She is prone to seizure if she laughs a lot or cries continuously. Her right hand and leg are weak, and she always uses her left hand. She wears a leg-supporting device to bed every day.

The search for Nisha by the Malaysian authorities, aided by a team from the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), has so far failed to trace her. Her parents feel that Nisha could have been found the day she disappeared if a system such as the proposed Nurin (Nationwide Urgent Response Information Network) alert was in place. Modelled after the Amber alert in the United States, the Nurin alert was mooted in 2007 following the brutal murder and sexual assault of 8 year old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin.

Nisha's parents have said that they will not take legal action against the person who returns their daughter and ask that Nisha be just left at their house and there is no need to see anyone. MIC have offered a RM10,000 reward to anyone providing information which could lead to Nisha's recovery.

What is the public reaction?

Sharlinie Mohd Nashar

 Police will never close the files of the abduction of Sharlinie Mohd Nashar.Selangor police chief Deputy Commissioner Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said that they have never closed old cases until they are considered completed and they will be continue looking for the suspects and finding new leads.

  Sharlinie was reported missing while playing outside her house in Taman Medan on January 9,2008,and this place is not far from where Nurin's body was found.

What is the mentality of the offenders?

Why people become criminal?

In simple words an act or behavior that violates or breaches the rule of political, moral or criminal laws and is liable for punishment and public prosecution.

What are the basic reasons which make a people criminal?

• Increasing rate of Unemployment is the major problem of increasing crime rate. Consider a situation when the qualified young graduate remains unemployed for longer period after he completed his education. His family has lot of expectations from him and to satisfy their expectations, he can go up to any extent and cross any limit just in desire of small payment. At this stage, he is not in a position to make a correct decision between what is just and what is unjust, but he don't want to miss any of the opportunity that life is giving him and in this feeling only he accepts those offers which can change his life and can break their social and moral ethics and they are ready to commit crimes, they are ready to kill a person, they are ready to accept any offer that can prove to be a earning money source for them. 
• Domestic violence is another consequence of unemployment. It may even result in aggression and or murder. And this major unemployed segment of society is the main source for crime. No criminal is by birth a criminal but it is the circumstances which make him do it. But this problem is mainly associated with the developing countries. So what about developed countries? Do they not commit crimes? No they also commit crimes. Even the crime rate is higher in developed country like USA than other developed countries of the world.
• High ambitions are also the one source for crime. A person who has high ambitions like if he wants to enjoy all the comforts of life or wants to achieve the high status in his life, he wanted to complete them at any cost and any unfair means to fulfill his wish. To make his wishes come true or to enjoy the luxuries of life he can come in the way of crime as this seems to be an easy mean to earn money for them and when they do crime for the first time then the 'advantages' of crime compel them to commit such acts again and again and now if they want to come back they can't be their way back to path of justice and honesty.
• Technology Advancements are also one of the reasons for increasing of crime rate. This is because technology advancements have broadened the mind of people and they now can think better ways of committing crimes. Like most of the young person want to own and make use of highly sophisticated arms. And if they are not made available to them, they think for different ways and professional criminal's takes advantage of this. Technology advancements have now made the way of criminals much easier than before.

What is the public reaction?

     NURIN JAZLIN

     Nurin’s death sparked a nationwide outrage. Horrified parents shared the sentiment , horror and sympathy. 

    1) Sensitive members of the public rang up the parents to offer their sympathies. There were also crank callers that hurled abuses and harsh criticisms towards them through text messages and phone calls, accusing them of being poor parents. Some were in the form of sick and tasteless pranks. Despite all these, Nurin’s parents continued to will themselves to remain strong. They waited patiently for any news regarding their beloved child.

    2) Nurin’s death sparked a nationwide outrage. Horrified parents shared the sentiments, horror and sympathy. A large number of Malaysians blogged on the Internet to express their feelings of anger and disappointment over Nurin’s ill-fated demise. Suspects were detained but dismissed when the police could not establish any solid links between them and the victim.

    3)In the meantime, Nurin’s parents had to deal with one blow after another. It was announced that they may be charged with parental negligence – Nurin’s abduction and death somehow was their fault. Nurin’s post mortem photos were leaked to the public via e-mail circulations by an irresponsible party. However, recent development has confirmed that the person responsible for the leakage is already in custody. Public outcry for justice continues.

The events of the disappearances ...

1)   Nurin Jazlin Jazimin

It began with an innocent visit to the night market.

       On the evening of August 20^th 2007, 8-year old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin asked her mother for permission to run down to the neighbourhood’s night market. She wanted to buy hair clips for herself. Her mother, Norazian Bistaman, was entertaining a guest at that time. She said okay, thinking that Nurin was going to be accompanied by her younger sister. Her daughters usually went out either in a buddy-system or in groups. It never occurred to her that Nurin had decided to venture out by herself.

       

     On September 17^th, a company supervisor in Petaling Jaya stumbled across a large Diadora sports bag outside the company premises when she came to open the store. It was Monday morning. She initially thought the bag belonged to her employer who had just returned from a trip. But when the general manager of the company arrived 30 minutes later, it was discovered that the bag did not belong to him. Upon opening the bag to search for identification or clues to the owner, to his horror, he found a body within. He immediately alerted the police.

What followed next was a series of media circus.

      The body in the bag was a female child, aged between 6 and 8. She had been sexually-assaulted and strangled. Reports confirmed that she died approximately 6 hours prior to being transported to the “dump site”. Nurin’s parents were alerted immediately. They rushed to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for the identification procedure, barely able to brace themselves for the impending nightmare. Due to severe physical changes on the body caused by trauma, the husband and wife were unable to recognize her. They did not think it was Nurin. The body was initially presumed to be of a foreign child.

      At present, Nurin’s murder remains an open investigation. The police are convinced that they will find a lead. It’s just a matter of time, good old police work and patience. Jazimin, his wife and his family and relatives are still hopeful that the police will apprehend the person responsible. They are hoping that justice will prevail.