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    Nature versus Nurture: Are People Psychologically Predisposed to Commit Crimes? For decades‚ many people have attempted to enforce a judicial system upon those who break the law to prevent criminality‚ but alas‚ it has yet to prevail. Time and time again‚ the world has attempted to understand why one may want to commit a crime‚ but the question that lingers is: Nature versus Nurture: Are people psychologically predisposed to commit crimes? Within this study‚ I aim to understand and possibly

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    People commit crime because of selfish reasons. Do you agree?    How do people define crime? Some might define crime as an act of offence towards the morality of humans. Others might regard crime as an act that harms the universal human rights. In my perspectives‚ I think that crime is an offence made towards the law. Therefore‚ why do people still commit crimes? Some crimes were committed because of hatred‚ hardships and even because of the people they loved. All in all‚ I do agree that people

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    Kids Commit Crimes

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    One reason as to why kids should not be given a mandatory sentence is because they are immature emotionally and physically. Kids do not always know the difference between right and wrong‚ as they are always thinking in the moment‚ and do not think of the

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    every woman who commits suicide‚ there are four men that commits it‚ but women are 3 times more likely to commit suicide than men are. Being bullied is a reason why a lot of people commit suicide‚ people feel like that the pain being inflicted on them will never stop‚ and no one could possibly do anything to stop that so they feel the need to harm themselves(cutting) and even committing suicide. Some people even go out of their way to harm everyone that they felt hurt them and the people they felt like

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    There has to be a reason why they people commit suicide‚ you might not know but they do and there are a lot of possibilities. It could be that the child was having problems at school‚ about their body. Sometimes the parents don’t even see that there is something wrong with their child‚ they don’t bother to know what’s going on at school‚ if they have problems‚ if they are depressed‚ nothing. People who commit suicide aren’t necessarily stupid. Low self-esteem can lead to suicide. You could be self-conscious

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    Crime is a major part of our society in many different ways. It allows us to lower the human population and put away the people who decide to be deviant. Although in the long run these can be good things crime also allows people to label each other in ways that wouldn’t have happened if crime was non-existent. It seems today that in our society people are getting labeled more often from people who do not really know the person personally. This is a bad habit that America is getting involved in.

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    professor in Warwick University‚ claims that calling people with labels not only hides the difficulty of the situation but also stops them from remodeling their lives again. Labels like ‘criminal’ and ‘murderer’ are the reasons why people are rejected in society even after they have completed their term of punishment. The article “Stop labelling people who commit crimes criminals”‚ by Kimberly Brownlee (2017) talks about the unfairness of labeling people according

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    Do people commit different acts of evil? Are all acts of evil equal or different? In current time there are different punishments for different crimes committed. If a person commits a murder then they could be put in jail for life. While another person who robbed a bank might only be in prison for ten years. If there were only one form of evil then should the punishment for all crimes be the same? The different types of evil can be caused by different reasons and lead to many different consequences

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    for the past 40 years. Recently‚ they have come to the conclusion that children between the ages of 16 and 18 who commit adult crimes should be tried and sentenced as adults. After researching information and cases of minors being tried as adults‚ I have concluded that if minor offenders were punished in the same degree as adult offenders are‚ the number of minors committing crimes might be reduced significantly. While it is not appropriate for these individuals to be placed in the same facilities

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    Women Who Commit Crimes

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    French Novelist Albert Camus wrote‚ “We all carry within us our places of exile‚ our crimes‚ and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves”. Crimes are crimes and should not be differentiated on the basis of gender motivations since they are different for each. It was God who made the woman by nature mild‚ sober‚ soft‚ lovely and to be loved with little exception. Even though women are believed to be less violent than men‚ there are still a percentage

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