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Something we should consider, whenever we investigate ideas as broad and fundamental as these, is that topics relating to crime, justice and society have been discussed for thousands of years....
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This is a pretty complicated question that requires nuance and critical thinking to address. I would address this question by starting to think about: 1. how people are often attacked because of...
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Flames and smoke are probably two of the main things that investigators use to judge an investigation. The color of the flames can indicate many different things like temperature and use of...
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The psychoanalytic theory of criminology holds that people commit crimes for psychological reasons. This theory comes largely from the work of Sigmund Freud. Freud argues that human nature is...
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There is no one way to answer this question. Some criminals are rational. Some are driven by psychological and emotional factors. Some are a combination. There is no single source of motivation...
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Both of these causal explanations have truth to them. It is certainly true that people who commit crimes (and groups whose members are more likely to commit crimes) become negatively labeled. For...
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We simply do not know for sure what causes a person to commit crimes. We cannot experiment on human beings by doing things like taking people with identical genes and raising them in different...
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The best way to counteract this assertion would be with a solid and scientifically sound study. First, you would need to define physical and mental abnormality before you go looking at criminals....
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In general, men are far more likely to commit crimes than women. Men constitute 98 percent of those arrested in the United States for rape and over 90 percent of those arrested for homicide. Males...
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There are a number of causes of crime, including the breakdown of the family unit, drugs, a psychological belief system that rejects the legitimacy of the rule of law, and psychopathetic tendencies...
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Structural theorists do not tend to focus much on middle class crime. They tend to discount it, saying that middle class crime is less important than lower class crimes. This is in part because...
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With revelations of monitoring of the communications of private citizens by the National Security Agency so fresh in the news, and the fate of Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who...
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We cannot know for sure what causes people to commit crimes. It seems likely that poverty is a cause of crime, but it seems wrong to say that poverty is “the” cause of crime. Different people...
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Biosocial theories of crime are not solely biological. They do also include a social element. The social element is important in explaining why levels of violence are higher in lower class...
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There could be a number of reasons for this. Let us look at two. First, rural areas have fewer people and lower population densities. This makes it more difficult for gang problems to arise. It...
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There is something to be said for each of these as the worst kind of crime. First, we can argue that street crime is the worst because it has the greatest physical and emotional impact on its...
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There are a number of factors that influence the offender selection system, including type and nature of crime, prior arrests and convictions, and mental status of the offender. How well any given...
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The Los Angeles Police Department was implicated in several procedural errors that undermined the credibility of physical evidence in the 1995 murder case The People of the State of California v....
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A major medical explanation for criminal behavior is antisocial personality disorder, more commonly known as psychopathy or sociopathy (though these are no longer medically the best terms)....
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The behavioral/learning theory of criminology holds that people commit crimes because of the way that their environments have influenced them as they have grown up. These environmental factors can...
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This datum on its own does not really tell us much about the causal connection between poverty and crime that some people think exists. After all, it is not as if people are claiming that every...
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The debate over the legalization of drugs brings up many issues that we have to consider when we think about crime prevention and how aggressively to try to prevent crimes. Let us look at a few of...
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There are two main reasons why criminal activity drops after young people pass through the period of adolescence. These reasons are connected, but separate. One has to do with the obligations...
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Biosocial theorists of crime argue that both of these factors are important in determining whether a person comes to commit crimes. Such theorists argue that people can be genetically predisposed...
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There are many pieces of evidence that could be used to make this case. Perhaps the most important such evidence is the number of people who are in our prison systems for non-violent drug crimes....
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Yes, theories that hold that people can have biological predispositions to crime can be reconciled with the idea of rehabilitation. The reason for this is that biological predispositions are only...
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The idea of Broken Window Syndrome holds that small problems in a given neighborhood, such as broken windows in buildings or cars, will soon lead to other, larger problems. The reason for this is...
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I don't think that there is one particular answer to this question. I would suggest that one potential avenue that could help to prevent criminal activity in teens would be to address the issue of...
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Crimes reported to the police and total crimes committed in a calendar year will vary based on the reporting method and on definitions. For the purposes of this answer, the FBI's definition of...
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If scholarly research finds that these things can help to reduce crime, then the government would need to find ways to promote them so that the likelihood of crime can be reduced. Of course,...
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There is no such thing as a victimless theft. If there were, this would not be an example of such a theft. First of all, local convenience stores are not huge companies that can easily withstand...
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It is very much in the state's interest to provide educational opporunities to prison inmates. There is a well-established connection between education and most crimes, particularly those commonly...