Nature Vs. Nurture

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make up a criminal mind, one can conclude that a criminal often is born with traits common to those of criminals, it is the environment that exist around them that brings out the criminal within them to commit indecent acts of crime.
It is a fact that criminals have a smaller brains than law abiding citizens. Often, offenders share particular physical traits such as, being young males, muscular, having lower than average IQ, and a impulsive personality. Serial offenders are usually hyperactive and difficult children If a person has a low IQ, it is proven to be directly related to their tendency to be commit impulse actions that provide an immediate payoff. For instance, a rape or a mugging would provide a criminal with an immediate payoff. It is proven that crime often runs in families. In fact, chronic criminals are proven to be three times more likely to have criminal children. However, despite this information, scientists have no basis to come to any conclusions with ...

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proves that criminal behavior is not solely caused do to hereditary factors. Television contributes greatly to the idea of violence being imprinted onto criminals minds. In fact if you watch television for one hundred hours, you would witness at least twelve murders. As well Canada has a much stricter gun control law in comparison to the USA. If more guns are available than it can be certain that these guns will be used in the pursuit of crime. In many of the cases of violent criminals we see similar environmental components which exist in the subjects life which explain the reason for the maladjusted personalities. For instance a man named Marc LePine committed the unimaginable ...

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