Forensic Psychology

A thief steals a piece of jewellery without getting caught.
Then the brain release neurochemicals as a reward.
Making the thief feel great.
Making the thief steal more to get the same rush.
However, over time their brain starts to build up a tolerance.
Resulting in the thief stealing a lot more and possibly committing higher stake thefts to get the same rush.

In short, addiction works in the following way:

You do something that causes your brain to feel dopamine and other neurotransmitters and hormones.
These make you feel amazing.
Then you continue to do the behaviour, so your brain continues to release these neurochemicals.
But over time your brain builds up a tolerance to these neurochemicals.
Meaning that you need to do the behaviour more to get the same effect.

Basically, we learn violence by observing others.

Whilst, the murder weapon was found in her garden it doesn’t make her a killer as surely someone could have framed her.

Just because someone’s fingerprints are on the victim doesn’t mean that they killed them.

Do violent video games increase aggression?

Self-regulation is the ability to control your own behaviour and some research links low self-regulation with aggression as well as self-regulation is a limited resource.

In fact, most of the time criminals have average or high levels of intelligence.

When you try to understand or explain a crime, you need to consider both situational factors; like a poor neighbour, abusive parents and having children; and individual factors.

You need to examine theories as well as beliefs scientifically.