Over the past several years there have been many debates on nature vs nurture and its effects on criminal behavior. What causes someone to be a criminal? Is it the environment that a child is raised in ,nurture, or is it possible that a child is born a criminal, nature, that would cause a person to act out? Are adopted children more susceptible to criminal behavior, because they are not raised by the biological parents? These questions and many more are brought up in debates to find out the root of criminal behavior.
Nurture is defined as any environmental or social factors a child may have experienced when being raised in a home that facilitate the characteristics he or she will mold into. If the child is raised in a healthy home growing …show more content…
This is the area that people can not control how their minds and bodies work compared to nurture. Psychologist link criminal behavior to nature when discovering psychological issues that may not have been treated or maintained on the individual concluding why they might have committed a crime. If a child is born and they lack development in the brain it can lead to severe psychosis putting the child on a crash course to failure, therefore this is what many believe is being “born evil”. It can also be determined that most criminals are men, and most of the times words like rage and violence are associated with the gender. So, is it safe to conclude that all men are born then over time the environment changes their behavior. Even if a child is not born evil it has been proven that genetics plays a major role in their behavior. One of the many qualities investigators find of a criminal ,more importantly serial killers, is lack of sympathy or no conscience. Criminals love inflicting pain on their victims and it turns into addiction; when they do not get to hurt others they start to get a craving therefor hurting or killing someone to fill their enjoyment. Over time as this addiction worsens it can mirror an addiction of drugs or alcohol, and the criminal can never …show more content…
Most of the time researchers will take identical twins and place them in separate households and environments, hopefully concluding that they will adjust to different behaviors, because of their environments. This study would provide evidence if one twin was placed in a positive environment compared to a twin placed in negative environment and the behaviors were vastly different. It would also be safe to conclude that in various studies like this one that if a child is placed in a deemed fit home and they act out in violent behavior and their parents are in prison for a crime then their behaviors can be linked to the genetics. On the other hand, if the child is placed in a home and acts out, but the parents do not have any record of criminal behavior then it could be concluded that influences from inside the home and or peer influences had an impact on the behavior.
In conclusion, both nature and nurture has different impacts on a child’s behavior. These factors can be from social and the environment or different genetics that a child can inherit. All of these factors have been tested through adoption studies where researchers have placed children in different environments and studied how the children react whether the environment being positive or
Nurture is defined as any environmental or social factors a child may have experienced when being raised in a home that facilitate the characteristics he or she will mold into. If the child is raised in a healthy home growing …show more content…
This is the area that people can not control how their minds and bodies work compared to nurture. Psychologist link criminal behavior to nature when discovering psychological issues that may not have been treated or maintained on the individual concluding why they might have committed a crime. If a child is born and they lack development in the brain it can lead to severe psychosis putting the child on a crash course to failure, therefore this is what many believe is being “born evil”. It can also be determined that most criminals are men, and most of the times words like rage and violence are associated with the gender. So, is it safe to conclude that all men are born then over time the environment changes their behavior. Even if a child is not born evil it has been proven that genetics plays a major role in their behavior. One of the many qualities investigators find of a criminal ,more importantly serial killers, is lack of sympathy or no conscience. Criminals love inflicting pain on their victims and it turns into addiction; when they do not get to hurt others they start to get a craving therefor hurting or killing someone to fill their enjoyment. Over time as this addiction worsens it can mirror an addiction of drugs or alcohol, and the criminal can never …show more content…
Most of the time researchers will take identical twins and place them in separate households and environments, hopefully concluding that they will adjust to different behaviors, because of their environments. This study would provide evidence if one twin was placed in a positive environment compared to a twin placed in negative environment and the behaviors were vastly different. It would also be safe to conclude that in various studies like this one that if a child is placed in a deemed fit home and they act out in violent behavior and their parents are in prison for a crime then their behaviors can be linked to the genetics. On the other hand, if the child is placed in a home and acts out, but the parents do not have any record of criminal behavior then it could be concluded that influences from inside the home and or peer influences had an impact on the behavior.
In conclusion, both nature and nurture has different impacts on a child’s behavior. These factors can be from social and the environment or different genetics that a child can inherit. All of these factors have been tested through adoption studies where researchers have placed children in different environments and studied how the children react whether the environment being positive or