Criminal Behavior: an explanation of
Leading publications blame criminal behavior on innumerable causes. The most publicly known of these causes is the social environment. In reality there is a completely separate series of causes that nobody speaks of ordinarily because there are less complicated things to pass the blame onto. The explanation for criminal behavior has become an Occam's Razor of a form, where the simplest explanation is the one that is believed in the end. However, factors that are not simple cannot be dismissed as trivial for their complexity, when veritably they should be held in higher regard. Criminal behavior is more likely to be caused by physiological, biological, and psychological differences and disorders, along with by human nature itself than by a social environment. Every human being that is put upon this earth has the potential to be violent, and to act in ways that are viewed as wrong by society. Under the shell of society we all have essentially the same nature, and the same wants, needs and desires. There cannot be a place or a background that creates the 'violent type' of human. Criminals come from all social, economic, religious and racial groups. There will always be criminals like Ted Kazinski, who could be described as reason
Jones, Peter M. "What forces create a criminal?" Scholastic Update 4 December 1987: 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ably normal, polite, and a nice person all through his adolescence and young adulthood. The Unibomber, as he is now known, was an exemplary student with a solid life, only mottled slightly by the way life is for everyone. (Donovan, Jehlen, and St.Fleur, A13) Manganese causes brain malfunction as well, leading to increased impulsive behavior, and outbursts of violence under stress. This metal causes these types of problems because it lowers the level of seratonin in the brain. Seratonin is imperative to steady mood, and impulse control; it also decreases aggressive behavior. Roger D. Masters, a psychologist with Dartmouth College, states: "it is the breakdown of the [brain's] inhibition mechanism that's the key to violent behavior". (Wilson, 42)
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