What is 'crime' according to psychoanalytic theorists compared to the legal perspective of criminal behavior? Please contrast both approaches.

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(1) The psychoanalytic approach sees crime is an expression of buried internal conflicts that result from traumas and deprivations during childhood. Traumatic events that occur during childhood affect the unconscious component of the human mind. Freud assumed that the mind was composed of conscious and unconscious components.
(2) With regard to the legal perspective of crime, criminal law specifies the acts or omissions that constitute criminal behavior. Crime here is an intentional act or omission in violation of criminal law (statutory and case law), committed without defense or justification, and sanctioned by the state as a felony or misdemeanor.

What Is 'Crime' According to Psychoanalytic Theorists Compared to the Legal