These children don't have anybody teaching them right from wrong, "They"re basically growing up without supervision, without a sense of values, without a sense of being disciplined," says Kathleen Heide, a criminology professor at he University of South Florida in Tampa (Kaczor 6)...

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Control theories make a little more sense to me. Reckless" containment theory says there are predispositions that make people commit crimes. He uses the terms pushes and pulls. Pushes can come from troubled psyches, or stressful circumstances outside the individual, whereas pulls can be from family, friends, etc. His point is however that these pushes and ulls are not evenly distributed between society. ...

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