Crimes of passion

• Main Author: Berbano, Marie Therese C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1993
• Subjects: Crime and criminals; Inmates of institutions; Women prisoners; Imprisonment > Psychological aspects; Women > Crime; Female offenders
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/1127
• Institution: De La Salle University

The objective of this study was to relate the experiences of female adult criminals who had committed crimes of passion. The purpose of this endeavor was to gain an understanding of what possible reason/s could stir a person to commit the said crime, and also to determine what the perceived intrapersonal, interpersonal and psychosocial effects of imprisonment were for these subjects. The descriptive research design was employed in this study with the indepth interview method as the main data gathering tool. Content analysis was applied in studying the results derived from this method, and findings reveal the following conclusions: A) The main reason why the subjects committed a crime of passion was because of the discovery that there was another person who was intimately involved with their victim. B) for the questions regarding the intrapersonal and interpersonal effects of imprisonment, it was found that the subjects perceived that imprisonment had instilled strong tendencies to form affirming and constructive behavior which tended to the improvement of the self as an individual and as a member of a peer group. On the final question, it was found that imprisonment was perceived as being unable to instill affirming and constructive behavior which tended to the improvement of the subject as a member of society.