The question I want to answer in my final paper is, are people born with crime in their genetics or do people become criminals because of their surroundings.
There are two major causes for someone to become a criminal which are they inherited it or they have been around it sense birth that it becomes a part of their life. I believe that criminals come into this world innocent and by them growing up around criminals they become one themselves.
After doing research I have found out that a large amount of scientist and therapist both feel and think the same on this topic. They say that crime is born into you. By that they are saying that if your mother or father or both parents are criminals you will have an urge to commit crimes more than others who parents are criminals. On the other hand there are also a large amount of scientist and therapist that believe that crime is not born into you. They say that you are born innocent and by having both your parents, just one parent or even a brother or sister, or any close family member that is involved in crime increases your chances of fallowing in their footsteps and becoming a criminal.
I need to find out more about the children that come from criminal parents, I need to look into their crimes and their parents crimes and see if the crimes are similar or if they are nothing alike. I need to look more into where these children have grown up and in what kinds of conditions have they lived in.
I feel that when you are born you do not know right from wrong and they way you learn this is from your parents, and when your parents are doing wrong and a young child see’s them doing so and not teaching you the right way to do things the children themselves then learn how do to things the wrong way without even knowing they are doing anything wrong and before they know it they are not just taking things from kids they are committing crimes and doing time in jail before they know it and once they get out they are right back to doing things the criminal way.
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