Do you believe it is the way they were brought up in the home, or do you believe that there is something wrong chemically in the brains of such individuals? Why do you feel that way?
2006-10-22 16:14:15 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
About 80% of inmates grew up in a home without a male role model.
2006-10-22 16:56:12 · answer #1 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-06-11 08:23:51 · answer #2 · answered by Latasha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the type of crime.
There are crimes of neccesity, such as a stealing food to survive.
Then there are crimes of greed, such as what happened with Enron, Worldcom & HealthSouth.
There are crimes of passion, which happen in the heat of the moment. For example, a man comes home early to find his wife in bed with another man,and kills the man. He's probably not an evil person by nature...but he committed a crime none the less.
Then there are those who are just pure evil, who live each day to scam people, to do harm, those who have nothing positive to contribute to a good society.
2006-10-22 16:23:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many researches were made to study the criminal minds. Sociopathic tendencies are somehow attributed to heredity.
Environmental factors such as poverty, divorce, and media violence DO NOT cause criminality. All criminals share a particular mind-set--often evident in childhood--that is disturbingly different from that of a responsible citizen.
While new types of crime have grown more prevalent, or at least more visible to the public eye--from spousal abuse to school shootings--little has changed in terms of our approach to dealing with crime. Rehabilitation programs based on the assumption that society is more to blame for crime than the criminal, an assumption for which a causal link has yet to be established, have proved to be grossly inadequate. Crime continues to invade every aspect of our lives, criminal court dockets and prisons are oppressively overcrowded and expensive, and recidivism rates continue to escalate.
To embark on a truly corrective program, we must begin with the clear understanding that the criminal chooses crime; he chooses to reject society long before society rejects him. The criminal values people only to the extent that he can use them for his own self-serving ends; he does not justify his actions to himself. Only by "habilitating" the criminal, so that he sees himself realistically and develops responsible patterns of thought, can we change his behavior.
It is vital that we know who the criminal is and how and why he acts differently from responsible citizens. From that understanding can come reasonable, compassionate, and effective solutions.
2006-10-22 16:44:36 · answer #4 · answered by rosieC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
everyone has their own choice....just becuz u grew up in a bad home doesnt mean you have to be bad...ultimately, becoming a criminal has nothing to do with your upbringing, that's just an excuse people use for all of their problems. some one from the most perfect home you can think of, could still turn out to be a serial killer or a bank robber, and some one from the worst upbringing can still turn out to be a doctor or a police officer. and it has nothin 2 do w/ chemical imbalance...it's a matter of whether or not u decide to give in and do what u kno is wrong, because you think it sounds fun or exciting or you convince yourself its simply neccisary...
2006-10-22 16:21:17 · answer #5 · answered by Lexa♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe if there is a total absense of parents in the home, it might contribute to the problem. But not every kid raised without parents available has a problem. Kids do need love and nuturance that a parent can give, and that one way they learn values.
I also believe some type of brain damage can do it too.
2006-10-22 16:25:37 · answer #6 · answered by smoothsoullady 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some are born of desperation. Some think they can outsmart the system and get a thrill trying to beat it and get ahead. Some are raised that way. Some are just stupid.
I don't understand how the criminal mind works, I see theft at my job on a daily basis and am still amazed each and every time. There just isn't anything that is out there to make me want to ruin my reputation or make my kids ashamed of me...
2006-10-22 16:25:28 · answer #7 · answered by Barbiq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it has to do with who they were brought up around and what environment they lived in at the time. But i'm sure chemical imbalances can partially be to blame also cause of the high numbers of schizophrenia and mental disorders like that.
2006-10-22 16:17:22 · answer #8 · answered by Shorty 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could be the way they were bought up in their homes or how they were treated in school and it sometimes is a chemically in balance in their brain. and for some it is both. Crazy childhood and not being all there.
2006-10-22 16:24:10 · answer #9 · answered by SarinaAnn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many different factors---they have traced the history of lots of "criminal" families, where just about all ancestors and descendents ended up in prison.
In prison populations, they have found a great majority have serious learning disabilities, or are illiterate.
Some intelligent and educated criminals (Charles Whitman, the Texas tower sniper, and Ted Bundy, the serial killer, for example) were exposed to violent and abusive father-figures in early childhood.
2006-10-22 16:21:05 · answer #10 · answered by papyrusbtl 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋