CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR - HOW IT DEVELOPS

Why do some people become criminals ? Is it merely because they are evil, wicked or bad. Or is it more complicated than that ? Criminal are all different , so they are all likely to affend for different reasons. There is no one simple explanation for criminal behaviour. We should not forget that many people break tehe law every day and do not get caught. We all know people who break teh lawa, but who are never arrested. They are classed as "non-criminal". Others who commit the same offences, but are caught : are classed as "criminals".
To understand criminal behaviour we have to consider some factors (David J. Copke, Pamela J. Baldwin, and Jacqueline Howison, 1990) :

1. Early Environment
A person's early environment can set them off along the path towards criminality. It is almost a cliche that criminals come from a "broken home". It is true that a lot of criminals come from home where their parents were separated or divorced. If their father get into fights, breaks into houses, steals car or sells heroin, then these forms of criminal behaviour are seen as normal by children. If they do not excercise any control or discipline, so the chances of the child getting into delinquent habits are much greater. This raises two important points : the quality of yor upbringging - how your parents looked after you - rather than where you are brought up which seems to matter. Second, some people seem to be vulnerable to bad influences. Some people who are exposed to bad influences are unaffected by them, others - the vulnerable people - start breaking the law. Human behaviour is complex.

2. Heredity
It is different to unravel the influences of heredity from the influence of early upbringging. People inherit criminal tendencies, it is little evidence. The most people genetic theory of recent years was the XYY theory. An extra Y chromosome made men become aggressive psychopaths. But you could not distinguish between the behaviour of "normal" men and the behaviour of XYY men.

3. Socio-economic status
They are unemployed they are more likely to commit crimes than when they are in employment. They are unemployed they have more oppurtunity to commit crime.

4. Current living circumstances
How you are living and where you are living seem to effect criminal behaviour; the acts of vandalism seem easy to commit.

5. Crises and negative events
Crises and negative events in our lives can cause all sort of psychological problems. Negative events can trigger problems from anxiety an depression. Negative events can also lead to effending.

AGGRESSION

AGGRESSION
Aggression and violence are often used closely. Violence is aphysical attack : fighting, punching, kicking, using wepon. And aggression has a more general meaning, not just physical assaults : refer to verbal attcks or even just a hostile attitude.Kinds of aggressionCriminal aggression and violence differ from the sort of aggression in every day life. Despite it, the nature of criminal and 'normal' aggression is the same.
The causes and feeling involved are similar : criminal violence is merely a more extreme expression of them.To understand criminal aggression, star to look at 'normal' aggression. Anger can be very strong emotion. Feeling of anger may not be the only reason why people act aggressively. For the prison officer, anger to make the prisoner change his behaviour. However, people way act aggressively for two main reasons : 1) because of angry feeling, or 2) as a means of getting what they want. Most aggresive actions involve some element of gain : of mone, status publicity, etc, and some element of emotion : anger, frustration, or jealousy.
What makes people aggressive ?People may feel annoyed and up by acting aggresively in response to things and people around them and also to their own physical and mental states : will be discribed in four different part :
1. what a person feels inside (physically and mentally) :Tiredness is a common state which people say makes them prone to aggression. Pain , especially something like a toothache, and hunger can also make people more irritable than usual. Drink, drugs and some foods, other factors can influence the likelihood of some one acting aggressively, especially for people have less control over their temper. So , we have considered those factors inside ourselver, both mental an physical, which contribute to aggressive feelings an actions.
2. the degree of discomfort in the surroundings :temperature and noise have been mentioned specifically, but other elements in environtment which have an unpleasent effect on any senses might arouse aggressive responses in us.
3. the behaviour of others :why does a person who feel aggressive act that feeling in one situation but not in anthoer ? It depends on how others act towards him. People lose oppurtunity to do something, also make they angry. The main somponent, in violence and aggression is the way a person deals with others and how they behave toward him.4. personla thoughts :thoughts and behaviour are closely linked. A person's thoughts, both about him or herself an about others, can be a powerfull influence on his or her reactions to situations and the chances of aggression occuring.