Nature Vs Nurture
Social scientists have come up with many theories and reasons about why people commit crimes. The two main explanations lie in biological and environmental factors, which relates to the nature and nurture debate.
Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are – from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics. Nurture refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture.
A criminal can be defined as a person who has committed a crime. It does not matter whether one has committed a crime once or numerous times. Offences that may make one qualify to be called a criminal may include robbery with violence, murder and so on. One may wonder why is it that some people have the habit of continually committing such crimes while others don’t. Is it a matter of inheriting some genes from the family or is it one's on desire to do so.
According to Lombroso and Ferri, there are four basic types of criminals. The first …show more content…
This gives a conclusion that criminals have a tendency to commit crime and are indeed born (Wasserman
2004). On the other hand, an individual who is not genetically inclined to criminal behavior can be forced by the environment to get involved in to the same. Peer pressure is one of best illustration in such cases. Most of the criminals today are from big cities where living conditions are somehow hostile. One of the major factors that drive such individuals to criminal behavior is poverty, which in this case lies in the nature side of the debate. That is to say, poverty, which is an environmental factor, also plays a huge role in producing criminal behavior (Baatz and Darrow
Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are – from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics. Nurture refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture.
A criminal can be defined as a person who has committed a crime. It does not matter whether one has committed a crime once or numerous times. Offences that may make one qualify to be called a criminal may include robbery with violence, murder and so on. One may wonder why is it that some people have the habit of continually committing such crimes while others don’t. Is it a matter of inheriting some genes from the family or is it one's on desire to do so.
According to Lombroso and Ferri, there are four basic types of criminals. The first …show more content…
This gives a conclusion that criminals have a tendency to commit crime and are indeed born (Wasserman
2004). On the other hand, an individual who is not genetically inclined to criminal behavior can be forced by the environment to get involved in to the same. Peer pressure is one of best illustration in such cases. Most of the criminals today are from big cities where living conditions are somehow hostile. One of the major factors that drive such individuals to criminal behavior is poverty, which in this case lies in the nature side of the debate. That is to say, poverty, which is an environmental factor, also plays a huge role in producing criminal behavior (Baatz and Darrow