Criminal dynamic and psychic vulnerability

This article presents four criminal dynamic and psychic processes, which take part to the offense. These points studied in a dynamic way consider context, environment and criminal opportunities effects on psychic's vulnerability actualisation. This work is about violent offences author. Those four problematics and action processes refer to the following, has been defined from a psychocriminological integrative model briefly presented therein. The first is relative to the mental construction, which implies a psychic process whose primary function is one of "discharge and externalisation". The second involves the concept of "loss", the construction of which demands the implementation of an "anti-depressive" process. The third problematics deals with the "boundaries and their permeability", a process with a psychic function of "regulation of the relational distances". Finally, the fourth problematies is that of the "ideality and image", whose psychic process primarily functions as a "narcissistic restoration". (C) 2010 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.