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Essay / Social-Emotional Development - 620
An in-depth look at what drives people to turn to crime and the psychological profiling of a criminal. What makes people turn to crime? How can something like this be reversed or rehabilitated? Some say people commit crimes like shoplifting out of fear, especially if it will prevent starvation. However, the same type of crime also attracts the attention of gangs who steal whatever they are asked to steal and cost stores millions and millions of dollars each year. Both things mentioned above constitute the same crime, but they are committed for different motives. If they are caught, should everyone be treated the same if they committed the same crime? According to historylearningsite.co.uk, “the oldest known explanatory model of behavior is that of demonology. Criminal behavior was once thought to be the result of a possessed mind and/or body and that the only way to exorcise evil was usually through means of torture. The key was to focus on the individual rather than their environment or social forces. This raises another debate. And the crime...