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Criminal behavior has always existed and as long as humans roam the earth, so will the criminal mind. There is not one simple factor that causes criminal behavior, but several factors including, not only, heredity, the environment, and peer associations, but also race, gender, and class.
Is there a way to stop criminal behavior? ... Criminologists have been coming up with theories to explain criminal behavior for centuries. One theory is no better than the next, and a mixture of some theories probably comes closest to explaining the cause of most criminal behavior.
Cesare Lombroso was one of the first to research criminal behavior. ... He
"became convinced that a criminal was . ... a sort of throwback to primitive man who had not developed to the same biological level as the modern, non-criminal man (Gado 2004: chap. ... He called this sort of person a “born criminal” who was pre-destined for criminal behavior due to his physical configuration. “According to Lombroso, the “born criminal” descended from a degenerate family with frequent cases of insanity, deafness, syphilis, epilepsy and alcoholism among its members (Gado 2004: chap.
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