• To understand the basic ideas of bio-psycho-social model
• To understand the concept of proportionate punishment
Bio-psycho-social model emphasized the underlying biological tendencies along with the importance of psychological and environmental factors. This model believes that biological predisposition, environmental/cultural factors and psychological elements, all play equally important role for making a person criminal.
The biopsychosocial model posits that biological, psychological and social factors all play a significant role in human functioning, including in mental processes. The model is used in fields such as criminal psychology, medicine, and sociology, and in more specialist fields such as psychiatry and clinical psychology. In medicine, it is a way of looking at the mind and body of an individual as two important systems that are interlinked. The biopsychosocial model is also a technical term for the popular concept of the mind-body connection. They do not ignore the importance of studies like both twin and adoption studies have clearly shown that there is a genetic basis to antisocial, aggressive, and violent behavior (Mednick et al., 1984)
Biopsychosocial model talks about some youth with early onset ehavioral problems, genetic factors strongly influence temperamental redisposition, particularly oppositional temperament, which can affect experiences negatively. When antisocial behavior occurs later in childhood or adolescence, it is suspected that genetic factors contribute less, and such youths tend to engage in delinquent behavior primarily because of peer influences and lapses in parenting.
Bio-psycho-social factors are mingled like rainbow Although there is research that supports the sole responsibilities of both genetics/biological and environmental factors of aggression and criminal behavior, research still points toward a more integrated view on this topic.
This model is quite optimistic and believes in treatment and not in punishment and suggests that all criminal should be treated in mental hospitals instead of locking in jails.
Jails are factories of criminals
The core concern of this model is to challenge the conventional wisdom that increasing the prison population is an effective way to reduce crime. And he should know. New criminals are imprisoned with hardened criminals and offenders, the abnormal environment of jail does not reform the criminal rather make them a habitual criminal and ultimately increasing the crime rate.
Limits of this model
This model advocated that all offenders should be treated in mental hospitals instead of punishing in prisons. And if we analyze it seriously, it means sending all offenders into mental hospitals instead of locking in prisons. Initially I am saying although this model makes sense but its implications should be taken like a pinch of salt.
Mental hospitals are factories of abuse
If we follow the bio-psycho-social model it means that we would lock the all criminals in asylums. The environment of mental hospital is not better than any jail. So, what will be the result, we will make them a subject to torturous and inhuman treatment and environment. So applying the idea of “no punishment only treatment” can too dangerous for society like one hand:
By removing punishment can encourage people to commit crime On other hand, on the name of treatment, people can be subjected to very negative experience of sublimation, suppression and inhuman treatment. So the better idea is to apply the idea of proportionate punishment
Proportionate jails
I think this idea is good in principle, aiming at keeping people on the "straight and narrow" While this is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, would a few hours a day in jail really act as a deterrent, or a punishment for that matter. Surely we should be looking to deal custodial sentences to repeat offenders and perhaps very long ones if this fails to solve the problem. The basic rationale of proportionate punishment is
Punish them who have committed a crime
Treat them who are mentally ill
Repeated offenders should be kept in separate jails from other criminals
The concepts of Day jails are being successfully applied in many western countries, where those people are kept; who have disobeyed the legal system (like fast driving) but have not committed any serious kind of criminal act. At the end we need to use our mind with the reference of our own society and situation. Probably the most striking evidence for this proposition is the recent experience of New York City, which during the 1990s and into the 2000s registered huge reductions in recorded crime whilst substantially decreasing its use of prison. The number of people New York City annually sends to prison has fallen from around 20,000 in the early 1990s to 8,000 today.
Basic concepts of bio-psycho-social model
• Accepts the genetic predisposition argument
• But stresses the role of psychological factors such as parenting, attachment etc
• Social variables such as cultural factors are also emphasized
• More optimistic, believes in treatment for offenders and not punishment
• To understand the concept of proportionate punishment
Bio-psycho-social model emphasized the underlying biological tendencies along with the importance of psychological and environmental factors. This model believes that biological predisposition, environmental/cultural factors and psychological elements, all play equally important role for making a person criminal.
The biopsychosocial model posits that biological, psychological and social factors all play a significant role in human functioning, including in mental processes. The model is used in fields such as criminal psychology, medicine, and sociology, and in more specialist fields such as psychiatry and clinical psychology. In medicine, it is a way of looking at the mind and body of an individual as two important systems that are interlinked. The biopsychosocial model is also a technical term for the popular concept of the mind-body connection. They do not ignore the importance of studies like both twin and adoption studies have clearly shown that there is a genetic basis to antisocial, aggressive, and violent behavior (Mednick et al., 1984)
Biopsychosocial model talks about some youth with early onset ehavioral problems, genetic factors strongly influence temperamental redisposition, particularly oppositional temperament, which can affect experiences negatively. When antisocial behavior occurs later in childhood or adolescence, it is suspected that genetic factors contribute less, and such youths tend to engage in delinquent behavior primarily because of peer influences and lapses in parenting.
Bio-psycho-social factors are mingled like rainbow Although there is research that supports the sole responsibilities of both genetics/biological and environmental factors of aggression and criminal behavior, research still points toward a more integrated view on this topic.
This model is quite optimistic and believes in treatment and not in punishment and suggests that all criminal should be treated in mental hospitals instead of locking in jails.
Jails are factories of criminals
The core concern of this model is to challenge the conventional wisdom that increasing the prison population is an effective way to reduce crime. And he should know. New criminals are imprisoned with hardened criminals and offenders, the abnormal environment of jail does not reform the criminal rather make them a habitual criminal and ultimately increasing the crime rate.
Limits of this model
This model advocated that all offenders should be treated in mental hospitals instead of punishing in prisons. And if we analyze it seriously, it means sending all offenders into mental hospitals instead of locking in prisons. Initially I am saying although this model makes sense but its implications should be taken like a pinch of salt.
Mental hospitals are factories of abuse
If we follow the bio-psycho-social model it means that we would lock the all criminals in asylums. The environment of mental hospital is not better than any jail. So, what will be the result, we will make them a subject to torturous and inhuman treatment and environment. So applying the idea of “no punishment only treatment” can too dangerous for society like one hand:
By removing punishment can encourage people to commit crime On other hand, on the name of treatment, people can be subjected to very negative experience of sublimation, suppression and inhuman treatment. So the better idea is to apply the idea of proportionate punishment
Proportionate jails
I think this idea is good in principle, aiming at keeping people on the "straight and narrow" While this is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, would a few hours a day in jail really act as a deterrent, or a punishment for that matter. Surely we should be looking to deal custodial sentences to repeat offenders and perhaps very long ones if this fails to solve the problem. The basic rationale of proportionate punishment is
Punish them who have committed a crime
Treat them who are mentally ill
Repeated offenders should be kept in separate jails from other criminals
The concepts of Day jails are being successfully applied in many western countries, where those people are kept; who have disobeyed the legal system (like fast driving) but have not committed any serious kind of criminal act. At the end we need to use our mind with the reference of our own society and situation. Probably the most striking evidence for this proposition is the recent experience of New York City, which during the 1990s and into the 2000s registered huge reductions in recorded crime whilst substantially decreasing its use of prison. The number of people New York City annually sends to prison has fallen from around 20,000 in the early 1990s to 8,000 today.
Basic concepts of bio-psycho-social model
• Accepts the genetic predisposition argument
• But stresses the role of psychological factors such as parenting, attachment etc
• Social variables such as cultural factors are also emphasized
• More optimistic, believes in treatment for offenders and not punishment
