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This contribution deals with the unconscious motivations of criminal acts, the sources of motivation in the environment, the rôle of precipitating events, crime as a substitute for sexual devices, the need for punishment as a motive, and an attempt at classifying motives as 'symptomatic' or 'manifest'. In the discussion of the last point it is stressed that aggressive tendencies may be defenses against passivity.