Abstract: Criminologists and psychiatrists are generally in agreement that there are five main categories of lawbreakers: the instinctive type, the impulsive type, the habitual type, the passionate type and the criminally insane type. Whichever category they fall into, those who turn to crime must be regarded as somehow unstable and in a sense, therefore morally, mentally or emotionally unsound. Study of palmistry does reveal these violent and criminal tendencies. The main objective of this research is to make a study of the various hand signs in relation to animalistic trait and abnormal features indicate criminal tendencies. This work covers the study of various types of criminal handprints and also an equal number of handprints of common people. The percentage of each of the signs in both these categories is worked out and is shown here. A comparative change can be seen when we analyze the results. In conclusion I confirm that hand analysis can be used to recognizing criminal tendencies. For the police department results would be quite useful for its crime branch to understand the creation and working of the criminal mind.
Keywords: Chirognomy, Chiromancy, Dermatoglyphics, atavistic signs.
Title: Recognizing Criminal Tendencies through Hand Analysis
Author: Dr. Kanchana Kohombange
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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