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Modern Criminal Development

Modern Criminal Development

As the earth and humans continue to evolve, so does the recipe that cultivates the creation of a criminal. Just like there is no one recipe for chocolate cake, there does not exist, any one single combination of factors that gives birth to a criminal. The Social Development Theory of the Life Course Perspective is the criminological theory that I am most in agreement with. It basically defines that human develop into criminals due to a combination of factors from genetic predisposition, to learned or acquired criminal behaviors. I also do not believe that any one theory presented in the reading applies to all criminals in modern society. Criminal development can be caused by the possession of one or more factors being, biological, psychobiological, sociological, ecological, and economic inequality (pg 104).

Biological criminology tells us that some criminals seem to have a genetic label that predisposes them to become criminals. It has been found that some children that were adopted into loving homes as infants have no recollection of their criminal biological parents. And yet with all the love, encouragement, and economic advantages, some display difficulty with bonding to their new family. They at an early age harm animals, other children, and even themselves with no apparent explanation. Despite the positive environment and being taken from their biological parents at an age where they should have no memory of them, they have inherited deviant behavior. But there has to be more than that because then all children adopted from criminal and disadvantaged homes would display the same behavior.   It appears that there are generations of families that carry on a life time of criminal activity as discussed in the study of the “Jukes,” Richard Dogdale, was a criminologist that studied a the Juke family through out their generations which possessed a total of 3,294 descendants most being degenerates (pg 90). Another criminologist Henry...