Criminals??? would they ever listen to reason?

Question

-do u think criminals would ever listen to reason? - would u try to reason if u thought this was the only way u could get out of a bad situation?

personally, i dont think so, but im bored and i havent asked anyone anything like this, ever.

-do u think it would depend on the person and the sort of criminal?

No bolavo, thats not what im implying, i am looking for a wide range of opinions.

NO BP, that is not what im saying, my question is only looking for opinions and can be a phycological one as well.

NO BP, that is not what im saying, my question is only looking for opinions and can also be a phycological one.

Answer 1

Well, in most criminal cases, there are actual physical causes, like damage in certain areas of the brain. It can cause you to lose all respect for other life forms, and worse.

Answer 2

To an extent - about the same extent as any of us listen to reason about anything. Criminals are just people, some behave in very extreme ways, but they're not a different species.

Some crime is committed as a (what seems to the offender) reasonable, rational act. Some is motivated by impulse, emotion, by not being able to see a way out of the situation. Some is habit - the offender being habituated to a life of crime and not really knowing anything different.

I work with convicted offenders every day, it's what I've chosen to do with my work life, so obviously I believe that offenders can listen to reason.

A lot of work done with offenders uses cognitive behavioural theory, and starts from the assumption that offenders are rational, thinking human beings who can make choices, learn new skills, and take responsibility for themselves.

Answer 3

Being in the wrong place at the wrong time, makes you a criminal. Test-driving a car with no insurance makes you a criminal. Doing 61mph in a 60 zone makes you a criminal. Invading a country and giving false reasons for doing so makes you a criminal. Smacking a criminal with a baseball bat (as has been said above) definately makes you a criminal. Swearing in public is a public order offence and makes you a criminal. Offending someone with your behaviour (such as stating we should hit criminals with baseball bats/suggesting they are of a different species) makes you a criminal. Downloading an MP3 makes you a criminal. Having a dodgy copy of Windows XP makes you a criminal.

None of you are holier than thou, so jump down from your high horses and come back to earth.

Some criminals do listen to reason but there are idiots in every walk of life. Some know no other way because of their parents.

It depends ENTIRLY on the person.

If you don't like what I have to say, thumbs-down me! Like I care!

Answer 4

there are all types of criminals. All of them are doing wrong, even the so-called business-like ones. That's why it's called crime.
I think some of them never learned to read or write well and turned to crime because they had no skills for life. Some were brought up in an environment where it was normal in their life for people to steal and kill. That was their role model as they grew up. Another group knows right from wrong but has a love of money that has become their #1 goal in life no matter what , they go after the money, even if illegal. I think for most of them the behavior cannot be reversed.

Answer 5

Sure. Many criminals are very logical, very intelligent, and operate very much on a cost-benefit analysis. Most professional criminals, in fact, use this model.

They make their decisions on whether to commit a crime based on the risks, the potential gains, the costs, and the likelihood of success. Just like any other business-folk. So, they absolutely listen to reason. They just sometimes come to different conclusions than the law does about what is cost-effective.

For them, change the calculus of the equation, and they make different decisions. Very reasonable decisions, based on the factors described above.

Granted, that's not a majority of criminals, only the professionals. Most people who commit crimes are quite unreasonable, or quite thick-headed, and don't do any sort of rational contemplation of risk versus reward. They just act, often impulsively. Those sort are unlikely to listen to reason, regarding their crimes or anything else.

Answer 6

our criminals are deliberatly created, the worse criminals are those who betray our country but they are not in jail they are in gov,It has been these who have set the stall out for all outfer criminals to work from, some criminal acts are not criminal at all, they are as a result of lousy leadership putting people in impossable stuations that didnt exist before, When criminals look at the lies and deciet that goes on among the great honourables, what would they think.If gov altered things drasticaly to impoverish people and destroy the power of their evconomy, Then they have to defend themselves on the economic front, if they do they are criminals, because they will go out on the fiddle
to protect.

Answer 7

In thet situation only the reason help.To put the question :what is your reason?But have to keep up even for the criminal.That it means even the body react on this question and the consciousness don't move from that point.

Answer 8

Well at least the criminals aren't in power.
What worries me is the police, judiciary and government never listen to reason yet they have extreme power over us.

Answer 9

Well it all depends on the individual. If they had repetitively commit crimes, then it's useless to even reasons with them as they will not take in anything that you are bound to say.

Answer 10

you keep telling every one

"no, thats not what im saying"

so what the hell r u saying, your ? is jibberish and so r ur updates

to answer you... no... you personally are not good enough at communicating to get someone to change. i would hardly call you "the voice of reason"

maybe a criminal could give you some advice though