do criminals change?

Question

I know someone who has been in and out of trouble with the law for 20 years. he's 30. he's been to jail several times and has been in prison twice. he has only been recently released a year ago from his last stay. do people with histories like this usually stay the same? do any of you know people like this?

so people like this usually end up back in jail?

oh, and he has the characteristics of a sociopath. it totally scares me

i love the answers! please keep them coming

Answer 1

FROM WHAT I KNOW, ONCE ON THE INSIDE....ALL THEY DO IS LEARN BIGGER AND BETTER WAYS TO SUCCESSFULLY DO WHAT THEY GOT BUDTED FOR. ONCE THEY GET OUT IT IS LIKE A JOB WAITING FOR THEM..... TO COMMIT THE SAME CRIME BUT TO GET AWAY WITH IT THIS TIME. SO IN MY OPINION, NOT REALLY. IT REALLY DEPENDS ON WHAT THEY WANT FOR THEMSELVES, A BETTER LIFE AN EDUCATION THAT SORT OF THING. AND HOW WILLED ARE THEY TO CONTINUE TO CHOOSE A LIFE OF BORDOM AND HARD WORK. MOST CRIMINALS ARE ADRENALINE JUNKIES WITH NO FEAR.

Answer 2

Some of them do. I know someone who was in and out of trouble since he was 18. Went to jail a few times and then advanced and was sentenced to 10 years. He could have gotten out early but didnt straighten out and wound up being denied early parole. He didnt tell his Mother until 2 days before he was due to get out early. He said that the look on her face when he told her that he was not getting out was so painful for him to see that at that moment, he turned his life around. He buckled down and learned a trade and took many courses. He is now out and lives a productive life. He is in real estate and has a second job. Unless there is something really wired incorrectly, you can do anything you want to. He wanted to change and he has. If you were to meet him, you would never guess he has been in prison.

Answer 3

There are people who do change their ways. But there are more that do not. First, once you are a felon there are limitations on what you can do in terms of a career. So many revert to the easiest way to make money...crime.

Also, unless they leave their old town and friends behind they will get out and go to the same places, doing the same things, ending up in the same place. It is sad, but it is rare to see a person with only one criminal thing on their record unless it is a DUI, or some other type of "I made a stupid mistake" crime. People who are felons or commit felonies almost always have been arrested before.

Answer 4

I believe anyone can change with proper support, love and a desire too. I was with a man with a history such as the one your speaking of and he never changed. He's still doing the same old ****! It's easier to do bad than to do good and when you grow up in the prison system it's real hard maintaining a life that you control. These men and woman are use to being told when to pee, sleep and eat, beyond that they don't have the responsibilities that they have when they come out. I think some rather enjoy being locked up because their somebody in there while their nothing out here.

Answer 5

Ok, you have been in jail for 10 years, you end your sentence, the prison gives you 100 dollars and a prison ID and a bus ticket

You get to your old home town, no job, no house, no place to live. You pay 3 dollars to cash your 100 check

So what do you do after the 3 day when you are hungry and have no place to live

Answer 6

This is a complex question.
Many crimes are commited by young men in acts of frustration, rage, sense of materialistic depravation or a sense of boredom. Many of these young men eventually grow out of the desire and will to commit crimes, maturing out of criminal activities. It has been estimated that every year ten percent of all career criminals "retire", becoming more or less solid citizens.
Then there are those who, through a desire or avocation, remain criminals throughout their lives; it is the only thing they know or want to know. Criminality defines them, binds them into a sub-culture in which their skill, daring and wits are more meaningful and can let them have a sense of purpose and respect from others that is absent in the main society. They consistently seek thrills and challenges that are meant to test them and satisfy their desires for ever-increasing need to prove their "manhood", that they are the most fearless and the most cunning, and to gain a certain high from these experiences. These criminals, although a small minority, are responsible for over three-quarters of all criminal activity. Most are incorrigible and will never stay out of trouble.

The trick is find out who is who and trying to rehab those who are not meant for a permanent life of crime, and put away those miserable scummy piece of **** that prey upon the weak and helpless. I say fry'em! Hang 'em! Put' em so far down the hole that they can hear Chinese being spoken.

Oops, sorry for the outburst.

Answer 7

Unfortunately, the number of repeat offenders is very high, especially for crimes like drugs and pedophilia.

I think we should concentrate on lowering the future crime rate by trying to improve the character of the young people today. Last year, ABC ran a tv series called "Brat Camp" in which a bunch of teens with really bad attitudes were sent to a wilderness camp, where they had to hike, do chores, obey rules, and show an improvement in their attitude.

The hardships of the camp broke a lot of them down quite early. This "tough love" was the only course of action that demonstrably changed them. Nothing their parents had done or threatened to do had much of an effect.

I think we could DRASTICALLY lower the crime rate if every teenager was compelled to participate in one of these Brat Camps.

Answer 8

I don't think people like this change. If he is only 30, and been in trouble with the law for 20 years, I really think you might call him a career criminal.

Answer 9

that's all the way down to evolving. i used to be a thief. yet i grew to become right into a good thief in each experience. I donated a number of my earnings to charity. in case you want to pass with the character disease stuff, then that's shown it can't be cured with drugs, yet may be limited with scientific care. yet scientific care purely works if somebody has no longer submit a safeguard. when you consider that I easily have character disease and its too good there is not any thank you to heal it. even with the incontrovertible fact that i do no longer pass around killing human beings, nonetheless on a foul day i'm going to get tempted. to respond to your question, sure human beings do replace, yet its circumstances that govern that fluctuate. in elementary terms speculative and debatable, yet did all people supply as much as think of, if an exceedingly warm Jewish woman had the hots for Adolf Hitler, and Jack The Ripper did no longer get ripped off by employing a woman of the nighttime, how they might have been distinctive. good question.

Answer 10

I had over 10 counts of felonies before I straightened out, haven't been in any trouble for like 10 years now, just cuz I don't want to. I changed, so I would wager others can too, if they choose to.