Criminals Mental Illness

Criminality is a problematic that is increasing its rate all the days, all the countries of the world suffer of this problem without any exception, crimes are not only steal from the others, there are a huge variety of acts that are classified as crimes. Criminality is the quantity of crimes made that are forbidden by the criminal law. Laws are rules that govern society without this civilization would be complete chaos and disorder. The law is a very effective means to establish the rights of each person and help to defend those rights. The laws are in charge of giving punishment to criminals depending on the crime they had committed. However, there is a big dilemma, why criminals acts as they do?

There are many types of crimes; some are more

Psychopathy is one of the alterations frequently found among offenders inmates according to numerous investigations. The characteristics of this personality disorder lead us to deepen the concept of accountability and the consequences this has on the legal and penal framework. These are some mental disorders that people who commit crime can have: depression: hopelessness and suicidal thoughts; Schizophrenia: hallucinations and delusions; bipolarity: impulsively and risk behaviors. It is difficult to give a conclusion if all the criminals have mental disorders, because many of the studies made were with people deprived of liberty, a circumstance that may promote the development of certain mental disorders, and emotional disorders, borderline personality disorder and dissociation disorders. Serial murderers or sex offenders are often those who suffer from these disorders, because they want a revenge or because they do not know what they are doing, those feelings are repressive. However, mental disorders are not the only reasons because criminals acts as they do, also is the example that old people gave the younger when they still did not know what was right or wrong. That is why they adopt those customs, which were immersed in the depths of each people and surface at a time in which they could not take it anymore or even control

The laws in Mexico are proposed by an entity in specific presenting it to the board that listens and agrees, and goes through a long process, to finally be approved by the review camera, who determinate to put it or not. Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries with monarchy, therefore laws are chosen by the king and his ministers committee. This country has not any written punishments they give an appropriate punishment depending on the review cabinet ministers and the king. That makes different every country, also every country commit different rate of crimes depending of their situation, for example Mexico has a huge rate of drug Traficant, and Saudi Arabia has not a specific rate of crimes because most of the acts that the citizens do are consider as crimes.

Colombia’s constitution establishes mechanisms to prevent or punish crimes. The legislative branch is responsible for creating laws and regulations, while the judiciary branch judges when laws are violated under an adversarial system. Laws in Colombia are very corrupt, rich people often pay to people in charge of justice to omit their crimes, or to avoid scandals that might tarnish their name, also they pay to put the problem at their favor, avoiding going to jail. The criminal rate of ages in Colombia is between 15- 34 years old, the graphic shows criminal rate in youth