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c. Psychological problem
A leading factor that leads to cases of psychological problems with college students is pressure from fierce academic competition. We generalize university students’ crimes into three categories.
First, students who do not perform satisfactorily in school usually feel a sense of failure. Several students who killed themselves in universities in Wuhan mentioned in suicide notes that they had “lost confidence in life,” which characterizes Ma Jiajue. Xue, for example, was cited as saying he was depressed because he failed to pass the band four college English test (CET-4) for which he had prepared for quite a long time. Ma, who had been a top student in middle school, delivered only average performances in college, which could have been a great blow to his confidence.
Second, some students fail to get along well with classmates. Introverted, they do not cooperate or communicate well. Poor students, especially, usually cannot afford urban customs such as treating friends to dinner to establish good relationships, which makes them seem unsociable.
Third The majority of college students who suffer from mental disorder are from poor villages.
d. Antisocial behaviour
Antisocial behaviour, conduct disorder, and depression are all strongly linked to the appearance of violent or aggressive tendencies in young men. Antisocial characteristics contribute to the violent acts committed by men. They had high rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal behaviour. And geneally men suffered more of his kind of behavious than women . This can also account for the reason why all the murders now occur in the university are all male university students.
Table 1: Sex differences in types of strain (Agnew and Broidy, 1997:278-281)
Females Males
Concerned with creating and maintaining close bonds and relationships with others – thus lower rates of property and violent crime Concerned with material success – thus higher rates of property and violent crime
Face negative treatment, such as discrimination, high demands from family, and restricted behavior Face more conflict with peers and are likely to be the victims of crime
Failure to achieve goals may lead to self-destructive behavior Failure to achieve goals may lead to property and violent crime
Table 2: Sex differences in emotional response to strain (Agnew and Broidy, 1997:281-283)
Female Male
More likely to respond with depression and anger More likely to respond with anger
Anger is accompanied by fear, guilt, and shame Anger is followed by moral outrage
More likely to blame themselves and worry about the affects of their anger Quick to blame others and are less concerned about hurting others
Depression and guilt may lead to self-destructive behaviors (i.e. eating disorders) Moral outrage may lead to property and violent crime
This can be used to partly explain gender differences in crime participation (Agnew and Broidy, 1997:281-283).
3 Crime Prevention
The International Center for the Prevention of Crime defines social crime prevention as anything that reduces delinquency, violence, and insecurity by successfully tackling the scientifically identified causal factors [of crime]. (ICPC, 1997)
We can’t change the policy and system , but we can urge the leader from the government pay more attertion to this severe problem and take some coutermeasure from the superstructure.
Besides according to the case study we learn that not one factor directly lead to crimes but many factors lead to an increase in crime. They interact with one another. Thus from the government scale, it can pay more attention on intervention and focus on different variables that will influence the crime prevention, such as poverty and social inequality.
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