This is a discussion on Criminal INFPs within the INFP Forum - The Idealists forums, part of the NF's Temperament Forum- The Dreamers category; Criminal psychology is interesting, have done a lot of reading about it. I also has been reading a lot about ...
Criminal psychology is interesting, have done a lot of reading about it.
I also has been reading a lot about INFPs, and an INFP often seem to have a high level of empathy
I think my question is, how would an INFP behave and feel being criminal(from small robbery to murders)?
Theories?
Criminal psychology. <3
I can actually think of a few cases that might have been INFPs. Really, anyone is capable of corruption, and INFPs who have committed crimes might very well have lost their empathy through said corruption. That said, I see a lot of us as being capable of crimes of passion, if only because we feel so very strongly about a lot of things. It's certainly possible for those feelings and passions to become misguided, such as with organized racism and extremism.
Besides corruption, I could also see an INFP becoming obsessed and deranged over his ideals. Say that they go overboard and start viewing humans as cockroaches. Now I'm misanthropic myself but I would never throw an innocent life away for no good reason, but say this particular individual believes he can take lives because it fits into his twisted sense of beliefs. A good idealist gone bad so to speak. Driven mad by his ideals and instead of creating the perfect world he dreamed of, he makes it worse.
Sorry to sound as if I'm romanticizing such people, I don't mean to. Many a television drama has been made on such people. Every type has it's bad apples. I think some of the worst crimes though, the serial muderers, rapists, etc. I don't think they truly have a "type". They show really no emotion or anything. They seem to literally destroy whatever personality they have and replace it with this terrible shell of a person. That's what I think of hardened evil anyway.
Essentially what I was trying to get at in the second half of my posts. In the dark, I feel that we're the environmental terrorists, the eugenicists, the religious fanatics- the deranged, slightly sociopath man who warps the logic of his values to excuse his evils. Basically a bad INFP would be a reflection of good ideas that where taken too far and became the very thing they so harshly condemned.Originally Posted by Wanderlust94
My apologies. I added more to mine, but I didn't see that second little bit in your post. The good idealist becoming twisted and criminal. Does make for a painful backstory.
That'd be the way to do it, to break the person's mind. Unhealthy view of the world, i've thought few times that if I didnt feel so morally bounded to things, I could be a really nasty person. But I think thats the same with anyone, we feel guilt when we do things that are wrong, without that cue that shitty feeling to stop us we'd all be sociopaths.
But we're not, doesnt stop people from being assholes though.
No need! I was just concurring with you. ^_^
And yes, the well-intentioned extremist happens to be one of my favorite character archetypes to write about. They also make for interesting case studies, going back and seeing what went wrong and when.
I guess this is the keyquestion... how do we prevent it from happen?
I live in sweden, I'm not a criminal myself, but I've been in that world... Done things that might be analyzed as "INFP gone bad"... but that life only gave me bad conscience... so I felt forced to end it, didnt fit my values...
this is not why I'm asking though, I just think it's fascinating...
I was drawn into that world because at the time I was an adrenaline junkie... and at the time I felt as fascinated as now about criminal psychology, just wanted to try it out...
Another detail that's interesting in my little reasearch on myself: When I went back to normal life, I felt restless and like I had no meaning with my life... got depressed... then I realized I was good at music, and now make my living on that... so life can always turn...
Well, that's a difficult question.
As much as I want to think I have all the answers at times there are some things that are just beyond me as a human being. Some people, I think, are honestly born the way they are. Others are molded into it. But I want to believe that there's always at least some hope of redeeming people.
One thing I do know about criminality in general is adrenaline, fear(usage of it in variated ways) and money... some people who has gone over to "the dark side" often experience there is no turning back... but I'm sure most criminals see the faces of their victimes everytime they go to sleep... the only ones who are unsaveable is the people who has gotten mentally ill from it... the world they live in is the world of predators, eat or get eaten... and find a balance between to make sure noone gets eaten when u try to get money or whatever it is...
Except the ones who truly are sick and really enjoy hurting people
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