Forensic and criminal psychology

Acts of cannibalism, those in which individuals eat human flesh, have occurred throughout history in different cultures or peoples. The two main causes of this phenomenon are: survival, that is,...

Try to remember an acquaintance who has been assaulted on more than one occasion. Now, try to remember another but that has never been stripped of their belongings on the street. Remember how they...

When I see in the news that a murder has occurred, I often ask myself: "What has led a person to commit that crime?" But when the murder was committed by a child, the news hits me in such a way...

Every time there is a terrorist attack everyone asks the same thing: "How have you been able to do something like this?" Is it necessary to have some kind of psychopathology to perform this type of...

Violence has been part of the history of mankind. This phenomenon is as old as the first human instinct to dominate, to survive. At present, it has sought to conceptualize and problematize him due to...

One of the most famous cases that are studied in the subjects of forensic psychology is that of John Wayne Gacy, an individual who was adorable to others, but who committed several dozen crimes,...

Many young people and adolescents do not pay much attention to violence in their relationships, tend to believe that it is a problem that affects adults exclusively. However, during the engagement...

A few weeks ago, the movie "You can trust me" was televised ("Trust" in the English version).This interesting film faithfully describes a case of Grooming. This relatively new phenomenon,...

José Rabadán, was 16 years old and he killed his parents and his sister, mentally handicapped, with a katana, because he thought that in that way he could make his life peaceful. Raquel and Iria,...

According to the WHO, one in five adult women and one in 13 adult men report having suffered sexual abuse in childhood. Data from the OECD of 2014 show that of the participating countries, Mexico...