There are various factors that can allows people to be able to tell who is a risk for committing a copycat crime, such as environmental factors, family and the community surrounding that criminal. When someone is overly viewing, or hyper excited about certain criminals or crimes that can be used as a guide to see who is at risk. Frequently watching certain actions that a criminal has done, and editing certain actions can be seen in that. Generic factors seen in violent criminals such as ‘’idleness, isolation, and deterioration’’ (Surette, 205) are forwarded as predictors of someone who might do a copycat crime. During various research it was concluded that many copycat criminals are overly into the media and very interested in pop culture.
