April 28, 2013

Introduction to Criminal Justice – 53

Week 3 Assignment

A person who comes from what is typically described as a “good” family background, who HAS fallen into criminal behavior.
This individual may have fallen into criminal behavior due to the kind of people that they tend to hang around. Drugs and peer pressure also play a great part in why a person may decide to fall into criminal behavior. Even though a person may come from a “good” family background that does not mean that the person will not fall into criminal behavior. This is typically someone who has both parents in the home and the father works and the mother may decide to be a housewife to ensure that her family is well taken care of.
It may also be a person who comes from a single parent household and somewhere along the way, this person became pampers as a child and did not receive the proper discipline they should have and was not taught the fact that the people that they hang around can have a major impact on their lives as well. The individual may be lead to criminal behavior by wanting everything easy and not working hard to achieve it, so they decided to get into crimes such as theft, robbery, fraud and even murder. This individual may also develop a behavior of drug use as well and there is no known case of drug abuse in the home.
A person who comes from what is typically described as a “poor” family background, who HAS NOT fallen into criminal behavior
This individual may