When we understand a person’s growth experience, we can find answers to many of his current psychological problems.
A reporter once asked me: "How did you analyze the criminal psychology? I followed the criminal police out of a crime scene today. After I went in, I imagined myself as a criminal, thinking about how I would commit the crime, and then guessing the criminal. Guess what he would do. Did you analyze criminal psychology like this?"
I laughed and asked the male reporter to try to think about the pain of a woman giving birth, but he immediately said, "That I can’t think of it, because I’m not a woman.”
I told him: “When analyzing criminal psychology, the most taboo thing is to serve others with your own heart. I am not a criminal, how can I use me? What about analyzing him with the idea of a crime?”
Although we often advocate empathy in our lives in order to understand each other, that is, to understand him from the perspective of the other party, the premise of this is that you are likely to stand from his perspective. . However, when studying criminal psychology, you can't always change your mental style or personality first? There are many things in the personality that are carved into the bones, not to mention that people with three different views, even if they exchange roles, it is difficult to understand each other.
I once talked to a rape and murderer. This man has married and has one child and one daughter. He drove a taxi and had enough income to support himself and his family, but as soon as he saw a pleasing female passenger, he raped, then murdered and robbed property.
I asked him: "You are not short of money, and you have a wife. It is unnecessary to do this kind of thing. Besides, those unfamiliar women also have parents, husbands or children, but you are ruined for your own happiness for a few minutes. One life and the whole family! Have you ever felt uneasy in your heart?"
He didn't expect him to say: "They must be owed to me in their previous life. They are destined to meet me..."
When this kind of extremely selfish, unreasonable criminal, we really cannot understand him, touch him, or even communicate with him with ordinary hearts. There are still many criminals who do evil,But I am embarrassed to say evil, some even dare not to be frank about how evil they are.
I once interviewed a habitual offender who kills women. To understand his psychological characteristics, I asked him: "Are you a gregarious person?"
In order to make it easier for criminals to answer and avoid shame Feeling, I have designed five alternative answers in advance for my question-"very gregarious", "relatively gregarious", "unsure", "not so gregarious" and "very gregarious". You can choose one of the five when answering the question. However, the criminal asked me: "What is gregariousness?"
This question must be answered by elementary school students. I know he doesn’t want to answer properly, but he still patiently explained to him: "Social is that you don’t want to be alone. I hope to chat with others, play cards, drink, and play chess..."
But he said: "When I am happy, I want to find someone to play, and when I am not happy, I want to Staying alone, do you say I am gregarious or not?"
The second question I asked him was: "Are you a sentimental person?"
is still one of five answers, alternative The answers are "completely", "more so", "not sure", "not so" and "not at all." But he actually asked: "What is sentimentality? I don't think that a person who is sentimental may not be kind..." In this form of interview, I am not asking for sensitive crime details, and the criminals are not Willing to cooperate with me to tell the truth. It’s so laborious to conduct an interview, and we shouldn’t place too much hope on the psychological measurement based on personal subjective feelings, because once the criminal responds indiscriminately, the result is meaningless.
Later, when I went to see the criminals again, I didn't ask questions in scale, but asked about their experiences and past. For example, I would ask them: "How old was your mother when she gave birth to you? Who was taking care of you before the age of six? When you go to bed at night, who is usually by your bedside? Who are you closest to and happy around him? You Was you happy when you were in elementary school? Did any teacher like you? Are there good friends among your classmates? If yes, how many? What impressed you most when you were studying at school? What happened to your family? Do you still remember it?"
Such objective questions,The police can verify by visiting relatives, neighbors, teachers, etc. of the offender. However, the offender did not understand why I asked these questions, and sometimes even the policeman who accompanied me on the investigation did not understand it, because my questions were almost irrelevant to the case.
When conducting a criminal investigation on a minor who violated the law, a reporter was holding a camera and wanted to record my investigation method. It turned out that I was asking questions like the above, and I was deeply confused. When the reporter played this video, he said a narration: "Mr. Li asked something we didn’t understand
. Finally, the reporter couldn’t bear it, so he asked the criminal himself: "You know the victim’s family, why? Have the heart to kill him?
I wanted to answer the criminal: "I kidnapped him because I knew he had money in his family, but he also knew me. If I didn't kill him, how could I get the money?" "
This reporter is thinking about criminals’ unbearable problems, but he doesn’t know that such people are emotionally flawed. They don’t care about emotions, they care about money. I would not ask criminals such questions. Because I know what they think.
So, how do I know the psychology of criminals? My basis is the law of human psychological development. As long as you understand the content and characteristics of psychological development in various periods of life, you can know all kinds of psychology In which psychological period the problem most likely occurs, and what is the decisive environmental background during this period.
For example, reckless criminals often grow up in a family that is excessively indulgent and indulgent, and the family never treats their behavior. Setting a bottom line, truancy makes them lose the opportunity to receive school education, causing them to just want to use any means to satisfy their unrestrained desires, and they are ignorant of life, life and the law.
Another example, some criminal behaviors seem to be Cruel and ruthless, if you want to analyze the criminal’s psychology, it depends on who the victim is. If the criminal only targets young women, it is related to the problem of heterosexual relationships after puberty. If he only targets older women, it is extremely It may be related to the family background where parents went out in the early years.
Actually, it doesn’t take long for a person to come into the world, it only takes two or six years.The mental model has revealed its embryonic form. By the third six years, people can behave nonsense. If a person starts to commit a crime at the age of fourteen or five, his psychological problems must originate in the first six years of his life.
In 2015, when I recorded the program " " on CCTV, the host wanted to find an audience at the scene and let me analyze the person's psychology.
A young man stood up, and I asked him: "How did you live before the age of six?"
The young man replied loudly: "I don't remember anything before the age of six."
all The scene roared with laughter, thinking that I couldn't analyze it. But I tell everyone: "This answer is worth analyzing."
If a person with normal intelligence has no impression of a life and can't remember it clearly, it means that there was nothing happy at that time, and he was not very happy at that time. Because of the lack of love and touching stories, people will lack the memory of feelings.
Later, the young man said that he had lost his relatives since he was a child. This answer confirmed my analysis. He did lack a rich source of emotion in his childhood, so his memory was blank.
In the same way, if you can't find any trace of the crime at a crime scene, it is a psychological sign worth analyzing, indicating that the perpetrator understands the investigation methods and what the police are looking for. So, who would this be? As soon as the police analyzed, the scope of suspicion narrowed down.
There was a series of rape, robbery and homicide. The perpetrator did not kill all the victims, but he was very arrogant towards women when he committed the crime, and his tone was mostly imperative. Since he was wearing a helmet when he committed the crime, the victim could not see his appearance, and because he had flew around in three areas to commit the crime, how could the police investigate the suspect?
So, what psychological characteristics should this suspect have? I pointed out at the case analysis meeting: "This person should be living in a rural area, with a smaller rank at home, there should be an older sister on it, and more than two months later, Shandong police arrested this person. Some policemen were beating excitedly. The phone told me: "Mr. Li, people caught it! I have to report to you,There is one detail that you analyzed very well! You said that this person has older sisters, and there is more than one. The suspect now has six older sisters. He is the seventh oldest and the youngest!
Later, when I went to a certain place on a business trip, I met a criminal policeman who had a meeting that year, and he asked me curiously: "Mr. Li, to be honest, our criminal investigators don’t know much about psychoanalysis. We listened to you at the meeting. Analysis, I feel that those you analyze are not reliable. Our criminal investigation analysis talks about specific evidence, but your analysis is completely different from the criminal investigation analysis, and it seems that there is no evidence used. But now that the suspect has been caught, we found that the points of your analysis are quite right, especially the ranking of this person at home. Can you tell me how I came to this conclusion?
I will analyze it to him: "Because this man has been committing crimes for many years, some of the victims were killed, and some were not killed. Judging from the forensic examination, most of the women who were killed resisted fiercely, and most of the women who survived reported that they did not dare to resist. If you don't resist, you don't kill, it shows that this person is very familiar with women, knowing that they generally don't dare to speak up, so he dared to bully them, and even dared to let them go.
"In rural areas, a man is so familiar with women, it should not be because of the work relationship, but because there are many women in the family. There is only one mother, and he should have a younger sister or older sister. Brothers generally do not bully Sister, then, what about the older sister? If there are only one or two older sisters, the younger brother should have a better relationship with the older sister. However, once there are too many girls in the family and fewer boys, this kind of boy will be invincible and often bully the older sister.
"From this Judging from the case, I judged that the offender had an older sister instead of a younger sister. Because the place where this person commits the crime is all in the countryside, and the countryside is generally more patriarchal. Some families still want to have a son after giving birth to a daughter. Therefore, the greatest possibility is that this person already has several girls in the family before giving birth. He is a boy. In this case, the elderly in the family and parents will spoil him, and his sisters will have to let him, which will lead to his attitude and behavior towards women. ”
After the investigation of this case, the situation investigated by the police is in full compliance with my judgment.It can be seen that criminal psychology analysis is not based on imagination, but is justified. When studying the psychology of criminals, we cannot use our own ideas to guess. All analysis should come from the study and verification of the path of human psychological development.
In fact, criminal psychology analysis originates from the judgment: When a person reaches adulthood, his psychological style is closely related to his growth environment and life experience. What kind of life background will create what kind of person and what kind of parenting style will be. What kind of psychological style is created. Therefore, when we understand a person's growth experience, we can find the answers to many of his current psychological problems.
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