Conformity Reflection

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My review from the chapter in this course about criminal Behavior is very informational and also I've learned how to apply what I've learned in my lifestyle weather it is teaching or being a parent. One of the most informational reviews that I have read in this chapter is Conformity perspective, it teaches the aspects of human behavior. It teaches a person that every human is born to do the right thing and most of all a good person. It also taught me that it's your surroundings that can influence you Unbecoming that opposite person who you are meant to be. I believe personally that after reading the passage over the perspective of conformity. It gives a piece of mind that every person make their own decisions in their life. Having no social control our discipline others can make a person do things that he usually would not do, and it's called a lack of self-control.
With the knowledge that I have learned about
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I've learned that rape and sexual assault is totally different. The difference from rape is a forcible term of sexual activity by someone that's refusing and the other person that's doing the rape is forcing their self up on the victim. But sexual assault can depends on the situation of the circumstances, it can be during a robbery when someone break into your home or business and fondle you or touch you inappropriately. It also could be a victim as a child being touched inappropriately or abusively.
Now that I have a vision on sexual abuse and rape I can now have common sense to know that once a person say that they have been raped, I can ask them was it forcibly or was it voluntarily. I can now say I wouldn't say it was a race I can say that it was molestation, or it was sexual assault. A lot of people including myself always thought rape was the same as sexual assault. They are different in the same category but they are different.
I have also learned about cognitive-

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