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xialou1
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poverty, lack of education, and abusive parents are the strongest indicator for a child becoming a criminal.
This is the reason we advocate helping our poor as a culture, to lessen the influence of these traits thus making the culture safer, call it preventative maintenance. |
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dlk
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Yeah, that is what the libs would tend to believe. I believe this "may be true" in some cases, other cases, well I feel their brains are just "wired wrong". |
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carpediem
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I actually think it can be both. We are products of our environment and there is no doubt people are born with mental abnormalities that can cause them to commit crime. Just my opinion. |
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Shana B
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What about sociopaths? They are born that way... |
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Got Answers?
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Not always true.....research if you can about adoptive parents who have adopted more than 1 child, reared both the same and one is a terrible criminal. Then the parents look further into the birth parents and find that one or both were career criminals, drug addicts etc..........so maybe some mindset is genetic? But a person has the ability to CHOOSE between right and wrong. Why they would choose to go down the wrong path when the parents have been great is a mystery. |
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Mallory W. <33
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the parents are ussually the cause of a child becoming a criminal.
Bad parenting.
but not always...
theres always one bad egg in the bunch and you cant do anything to make that egg better. |
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Athena505
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that is true in most cases due to bad parenting of some kind physical or mental/emotional abuse, but there are say that some people have a curtain thing in there brain that make them more probable to commit murders/crimes over and over again suppose to the person who would only commit a crime once in his or her life time |
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Keith M
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Although there is truth to what Mallory stated I very much dislike saying that because it provides an excuse.
There will be a lot of opinions. I think it is a result of a lot of bad choices by the individual and those he or she has had contact with.
When I was a child it was common for a stranger to grab me up if I was misbehaving and deliver me to my parents upon which he got a thank you and I got warmed up if you know what I mean.
Today we have an a "don't get involved" attitude.
And I mean in reaching out to someone who needs help, an encouraging word, or a warning if on the wrong track. Therefore society shares in the making of a criminal but that too can be used as a crutch. The criminal should be held accountable for decisions he or she made with no exception ie. bad neighborhood, bad parents, I had it rough. The bottom line, we all know right from wrong. |
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wVw
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Try looking up Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis theories, and also look up the term Tabula Rasa ("clean slate") |
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gliel m
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I think so. Every child is born according to God's image. Criminals are products of a very bad environment.
It is always the responsibility of the parents to mold the character of their kids. |
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*****
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Yes, for the most part this is true. A person with a proper upbringing and discipline in his life will in all likelihood never become a criminal. |
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thedavecorp
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Generally speaking, yes.
There are genetic components for a number of behavioral tendencies, but they are usually not strong enough in and of themselves to be expressed if there isn't a favorable environment. |
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Andrés
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nature vs nurture, debate is getting kind of old. it's both. a criminal is born, and then made - so both. good luck with your project. |
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Mo
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http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Apsq11rI50A20bAiA8q0gBMazKIX;_ylv=3?p=Kalikaks
In a college study, there was an experiment involving Genetics and criminality in two separate families. The Jukes and the Kalikats. You'll find that their is a genetic difference in a criminal mind and a non criminal. |
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CRH
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I believe it is a combination of environmental and physiological that create criminals. I came from a good upbringing and spent some time hanging with a questionable crowd. They got me into lots of "less than legal" ventures. In the end my upbringing saved me from this life because I was instilled with a sense of decency that I could not shake.Had I not been raised as well as I was I would have been in jail with all of them by now. I believe that you must first have the mental capacity to commit crimes unless you are a case of "to survive" crime (stealing bread ect.) If you have the mental capacity and then are exposed to the elements you will be a criminal. I do not think one or the other variable makes a difference without the other. |
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Razor Jim
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I would have to disagree to some extent. Take Jeffrey Dahmer for example. He had totally nurturing and intelligent parents. I know they got divorced and all, but millions of kids have divorced parents and they don't grow up to be serial killers.
Yet he started exhibiting the signs at a very early age. He was fascinated by dead animals on the road and enjoyed killing small animals. Something in his brain did not function like a normal person. There are others just like him. |
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Joe
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Not necessarily. Psychoanalysts & scientists have discovered specific chromosomes typically found in 'serial killers'.
Producing a genetic trait and correlation amongst this aspect of criminality.
This also produces the topic of Nature Vs Nurture. |
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Extreme dog lover
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Yes, made not born
We are not born with criminal tendencies, criminals do what they do due to bad choices they make in their lives..........end of story |
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Wally420
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True that......i think its all about a good child hood |
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anna 1111
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okey it is true criminal are made not born but is it necessary that he or she met only abusive people .............. i mean good one are also there who can guide them it hardly depends on what they learn |
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