What are the causes of crime, and how can criminal behaviour be satisfactorily defined?
Association theory: learned through the environment
Atavistic theory
Biology
The excitement that accompanies the risks involved in crime might become addictive. For some domesticity (domestication) is dull and unrewarding.
When divided into direct and indirect causes, there are objective and subjective causes of crime. It is challenging to notice the differences and nuances between them. Under the causality factors, objectively measurable elements are taken with an authentic connection with the consequences of certain forms of crime. According to Bergan, the cause is a persistent and decisive condition of a phenomenon. The problem in criminology is that the real cause should be singled out from many factors that condition the tort. Causes are divided into general - which is familiar to crime in general and special - characteristic of some of its forms.
There are three classics: Eagerness for Power and Money, Envy and Sex; They are joined by other secondary ones such as revenge, fanatic hatred (religious, ethnic, racist, supremacist, etc.), machismo and classic psychopathological mechanisms such as Psychopathy and the one known as the "Dark Triad"; but we must not forget that sometimes people commit crimes and even kill themselves without any objective, that is, by MERVE IMPULSE and that is that EVIL EXISTS.
Thanks S.J. Malik.
I am interested in what designates a crime, what crimes are pursued, and whether other understandings are possible. Whatever people do, crime does not go away, but is it a problem, for example, of the elite designating what a crime is or isn't?
For example, a top politician engaged in illegal lobbying for their own profit does not get arraigned before a court but merely apologises and walks away and yet a bus driver would be punished for taking a pound from his fares at the end of a hard day.
Criminal behavior is a psychosocial phenomenon with no known biological contribution. Via socialization and enculturation we learn what behaviors are acceptable or not. I believe that a small proportion of the population engages in the more severe and morbid actions involving death via murder (s) that we to often see in the US.
I am also curious as to who in the social audience determines severity of criminal offenses. All societies create agents of social control. In the US we are experiencing crimes of of white police officers killing folks of color due to are inability as a peoples to create equality of opportunity.
So called "white collar" crime is certainly not punished enough nor severely here in the US. This is due in part to "perceived social value".
Rich
Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak,
I understand the psychological arguments but believe, although it plays a part, these are often a re-identifcation of factors evident in functionalist sociology. That is part of the general variations found in human responses. Anti-social personality disorder appears to mean that some people do not like others or society in general, which is a fair position although not likely to do any good to the holder of such a position or even to others. As an illness, probably not.
Lack of Honesty and Integrity, accountability, transparency, rule of law, independence of the judiciary, impunity, greediness, low salary of employment, political domination, lack of fair and credible elected government, incapacity and inefficiency of government over bureaucracy, etc.
There is evidence of a diminishment of crime due to greater equalities of education, wealth and opportunity. But assessments of crime still involve the powerful of the weaker in society and punishments determined by social status.
I wonder how many can connect crime and religion, and if not, why not? Many crimes have been done in the name of religion and how does this fit concepts of crime?
Some can justify crimes as a rationalization and a justification for antisocial acting out. in the US during our Second Civil War there are mucho of them.
Rich
Crime is any act against social and legal norms, values, practices and codes of conduct accepted and approved by majority of people at particular time and place. We strive for crime free society but we always have crime. Because there are always going to be people those disagree with majority consensus.
Crime is a complex matter. Many people engaging in crime would not consider themselves as doing so and point instead to the moral uncertainty around them.
The causes of crime are complex. Greed, Anger, Poverty, parental neglect, low self-esteem, surrounding environment, alcohol, and drug abuse can be connected to why people break the law. Some are at greater risk of becoming offenders because of the circumstances in which they are born. Many times crimes are committed due to ignorance also. Modus operandi of crime also varies from person to person and from gang to gang.
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