Defining Social Motivation in Crimes Against the Person

Crime Behavior Analyst Antonio Giannone, pioneer of the theory of ‘sexual motive,’ elaborates on his definition of ‘Social Motivation’ in crimes against the person.

[ClickPress, Wed Mar 28 2007] Crime Behavior Analyst and Researcher Antonio Giannone (B.Sc), who pioneered the theory of ‘sexual motive,’ today elaborated on his definition of ‘Social Motivation’ in crimes against the person.

“While a sexual motive is related to personal motivations that are strictly sexual, my research has shown that social motivations are apparent when the individual offender acts upon his emotions, following images in thought processes, during the commission of violent crimes against others,” explains Giannone, the founder of www.CrimeBehavior.com.

The emotions in question, as stated by individual offenders throughout ongoing interviews, include: Restlessness, Fear, Gladness, Curiosity, Hate, Anger, Enthusiasm, Ambition, Jealousy, Sorrow, Thirst, Disgust, Hunger, Lust, Anxiety, Contempt, Boredom, Admiration, Greed (money/ownership/possessions/ property), Love, Passion, Excitement, Impatience, Infatuation, and Laziness.
Analyst Antonio Giannone is continuing to study the emotions of individual offenders, to further get inside their minds and define the social motivations of these individual offenders. He states, “The question that we may frequently ask is the following: What are emotions and what are all the other things we label moods, feelings, passions, needs, or sensibilities?”

As his empirical research takes place, and valuable information is gathered via interviews with individual offenders; Giannone concludes that “it is understandable and evident to agree on the true meaning of words that describe emotions, like Fear, Lust and Boredom, because the individual offender uses these words to actually correspond with the actual thought process and to clearly clarify the distinct mental processes through the duration of the situation before, during and after committing a violent crime against the person.”

He continues, “Therefore, when the individual offender learns to apply such words to his explicit statements, it is important to learn that the individual offender attaches to each word various different and personal accumulations of conceptions, which is in no way a personal motivation but a social motivation… It is the acting and the committing of the crime behavior that has become a sexual motivation. Thus, the individual offender uses the social coin as a motivation, such as learning to use affection or anger as a social need in trade for basic social accommodations.”

Ultimately, the social circumstances and situations have a personal attachment to the individual offender, and the resulting crimes are “clearly related to homicide cases concerning conjugal violence, sex crimes in relation to the individual offender as the victim, to the individual offender as the aggressor, to love triangle situations involving the individual offender, to situations with sexual activity involving the individual offender himself and all other crimes that are against the person such as kidnapping with sexual motivation, rape and rape-homicide cases,” theorizes Giannone.

For further information on the definition of social motivation and sexual motive, and to read the full unabridged article, visit – http://www.crimebehavior.com/news/?article=97

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