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Essay / Theories of Criminal Behavior - 1296
Society provides different factors, such as peer pressure or poor grades, that push an individual to commit a crime (Einstadter, Werner, and Stuart 2006). Indeed, there is an abundant relationship between the experience of violence and unruly behavior in childhood and their behavior in adulthood. It is the product of social progress, where children become victims or eyewitnesses of certain criminal acts. Thanks to social progress, certain traits, which were not acquired before, are recognized and slowly manifest themselves, especially in children. For example, children raised in violence, either as victims or eyewitnesses of criminal acts, will display such behavior as adults (Woolf, 2006). Therefore, people will commit different crimes depending on the environment they were in.