Scholars and Criminal Justice Theories Discussion
The problem of the crime’s backgrounds have been in mind of scholars for a long time. Several theories exist now as well as some are gaining their strength. I admit that there is no certain position as to what influence the commission of a crime. My point of view is that the criminal behavior takes it outflows from both the social environment and the personality formed in such conditions.
To begin with, the social engagement and the behavioral habits, which follow from it, influence a person a lot. The environment of that sense consists from the surrounding people and from the governmental regulations, which establish the climate around the person. It shall be emphasized that if the environment, in which a person lives, is poor, hopeless and leading to offences, the person, who grows up in that society, is much more likely to become a criminal that the individual, who had never influenced problems or suffering from its living. Moreover, the situation may be worsened by the inefficient system of criminal justice, since if the cost of the offence, i.e. the probability of being caught and/or punished, is low, the person automatically is more likely to commit a crime.
Other aspect lies in the dimension of personality or, more precisely, in the will of the person. In a situation where a weak-will person will commit a crime, the stronger one will prevent him/herself from acting in a way, which will break the laws. Indeed, this is somehow dependent from the previous behavioral history of the individual. Only those, who were raised to oppose the undesirable actions, could fight against an intention to commit a crime.
Therefore, I find both the surrounding society and the personality are the determinative factors to identify why the crime was committed by a …
