When it comes to breaking the law, a criminal may have many different reasons for doing so. Some may feel as if a loss of sense of attachment isn't a legitimate reason for murdering someone. That same someone may feel like it is an understandable reason for someone to kidnap an innocent child. We...

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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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