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Essay / Crime is Free Will Research Paper - 815
Crime is Free WillLawanda HamonKeiser UniversityCrime is Free WillAs children, our first teachers are our parents; we imitate their every move while our sponge-like brain absorbs what we perceive as our way of life. According to the Cahaba school, "crime, as they believed, was an activity carried out in complete freedom and in which individuals weighed the consequences of their actions." Crime can be influenced by negative social encounters, peer pressure, and imitation of family role models. Criminal commitments are a matter of free will and I believe criminals choose their lifestyle based on their influences and encounters. Often, the criminal behavior of the time is carried out in its most modest forms, such as casual shopping, visiting amusement parks, gastronomy and even with young people in our schools. . We view these places as relaxing, fun, innocent and safe, while criminals have seen these places as open opportunities, opportunities to manipulate and take advantage of the weak; Criminals have learned to seek out these environments for such reasons and because they have seen other criminals commit crimes unsupervised and believe they can do the same. Negative social encounters easily turn into influenced actions such as skipping restaurant bills, stealing merchandise, and cheating in classrooms. Along with social encounters, criminals learn to commit crimes through peer pressure. From adolescence onwards, children often find themselves in situations where they feel obliged to fit in with the popular crowd. “Statistics show that children and young people, especially those aged 15 to 18, are committing an increasing number of crimes due to peer pressure, according to the National Economic and Social Directorate...... at middle of document..... Social trends resulting from social encounters, peer pressure, and imitation of family role models affect criminal activity in many places around the world today. Criminals are more likely not to delay gratification; thus, they will choose the quickest way to be satisfied with criminal acts. This trend can be broken by fighting against these criminal acts and leading our society on the path to success.ReferencesCahaba School. (1990, December). In Explaining Crime (Theories). (Chap. Chapter 6) Retrieved April 16, 2014 from http://cahabaschool.org/Criminology.htmAgency, Thailand. (June 16, 2006). Thai News Agency. The Nation 4A-4A.Lieurance, Safire Lieurance.. (March 9, 2012). The influence of a parent on the personality of their children. Yahoo Voice. 1-1. Retrieved June 14, 2014 from Yahoo Siegel, LJ (2014). Criminology: The Australian Core, Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.