Theories Of Criminal Behavior

For several years, psychologists have tried to coin the reason why many criminals engage in deviant behavior. They have demonstrated that social learning theory may be associated with criminal behavior, thus it is possible that people can learn and observe behaviors from their parents and untimely abuse their partners. A study conducted by David Adams (2009) explored the possibility of social learning theory to be associated with domestic abuse. The study consisted of 31 men who killed their partners and 20 would be killers. They were recruited from five different prisons in Massachusetts. In addition, the would-be killers were not interviewed directly since it might endanger their victims. Therefore, instead of interviewing the would-be killers,