When it comes to the understanding and investigation of criminal behavior, the role of culture is often overlooked. Despite the fact that populations of individuals who offend are culturally diverse, theories, risk assessment procedures, and intervention methods in forensic psychology have been developed based on research with predominantly white, male, and Euro-American populations. In this paper we outline a preliminary model depicting hypothesized psychological processes that underpin criminal behavior, which can be applied within various cultural contexts: a perspective based on the construct of agency and its social and cultural underpinnings. The Cultural Agency-Model of Criminal Behavior (CAMCB) depicts the general processes underpinning human beings’ goal-directed behavior and is intended to explain why there are variations in the relationship between dynamic risk factors and behavior across cultural contexts. In describing the model, we use a number of examples to illustrate the relationship between culture and offending related factors at the different phases of the offending action sequence. Following the depiction of the CAMCB, we discuss its research and practice implications.

当谈到犯罪行为的理解和调查时，文化的作用常常被忽视。尽管事实上冒犯的人群在文化上是多种多样的，但基于对白人，男性和欧美人群的研究，已经发展了法医心理学的理论，风险评估程序和干预方法。在本文中，我们概述了一个初步模型，该模型描述了支持犯罪行为的假设心理过程，该过程可在各种文化环境中应用：基于代理机构及其社会和文化基础的观点。犯罪行为的文化机构模型（CAMCB）描述了一般过程这是人类目标导向行为的基础，旨在解释为什么跨文化环境动态风险因素与行为之间的关系存在差异。在描述模型时，我们使用许多示例来说明文化和违规行为序列不同阶段的违规相关因素之间的关系。在描述了CAMCB之后，我们讨论其研究和实践意义。