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Criminology Psychoanalytical Theory Jessica Komperda Dr. Craig Criminal Justice 242 December 8, 2003 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was the first person to initiate the thought of psychoanalysis. According to Friedlander (1947), classical Freudian psychoanalytic explanations of delinquency focus on abnormalities or disturbances in the individual's emotional development from early childhood. Since then many people have amended his original writings and presently there are numerous versions Freud's original psychoanalytical theory. Many of these recent versions are similar to the original version with the exception that they are updated to current times. Few new models are extremely different from Freud's theory. Adler, Mueller, and Laufer (2004) describe the psychoanalytical theory as follows: "In criminology, a theory of criminality that attributes delinquent and criminal behavior to a conscience that is either so overbearing that it arouses excessive feelings of guilt or so weak that it cannot control the individual's impulses" (p. G-6). Freud stated in the text "The...

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