My Crim Theory

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My Theory is two different theories mixed together to make one main reason as to why a majority of crime happens around the world. The first is upbringing, this includes the effect your parent have, your childhood friends and your living situation have on you as a kid. The other is your current surroundings, so once again your family and current friend as well as your living situations now. The reason I believe that you need both past and present of these things is because if your poor as a child and lived in a run down house your not necessarily going to steal from someone but if you are grown up and once again living in a run down place you are more likely to steal money to pay rent or food in order to continue living. Also from your friend and family you can get different mental illnesses like depression and anxiety, both of these could have the possibility to lead to different crimes being committed.

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  1. Geo TeacherFebruary 19, 2019 at 9:43 AM

    Hi Karisma, thanks for the post. It seems like you're heavily influenced by Social Structure and Social Learning theories. I do like that you've tried to combine the life course of criminal behaviour (past and present) which is Developmental Theory (Chapter 9 in the CRIM textbook).. Take a look at Figure 9.9 (Sampson and Laub's Age Graded Theory on p.193). Did you find a crime news story to apply your theory to?

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