Uncovering the Social Roots of Criminal Behavior: Theories Explored

nal choice. Neither do crime perpetrators commit crime because they were born crime or abnormal. On the contrary, social environment shapes an individual crime being implying that enforcing controls to such triggers can enhance change to such crime offenders. Social learning theory assumes that people engage in crime because they learn to involve in crime through friends and others. Based on this theory, social networks are a major component of social structure that defines a cr...