Posted on 02/25/2017 8:35:27 AM PST by MtnClimber
....Social scientists generally, and criminologists especially, often lack the ability (usually due to both ethical and practical concerns) to perform randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of research. We might expect, for instance, that having low levels of self-control is a cause of criminal behavior. In fact, some of the most powerful explanations of crime have been built on this idea, and there is much evidence to support it. We might also hypothesize that bad parenting causes children to develop low levels of self-control. Yet we can’t randomly assign people to have different levels of self-control, and we most assuredly can’t randomly assign kids to parents. All of this is to say that criminologists may never know for sure whether parenting causes self-control and whether, in turn, self-control causes crime.
While criminologists typically can’t use randomized trials, they do use a variety of statistical methods to study parenting and self-control, and self-control and crime. They attempt to rule out the most likely alternative explanations for why bad parenting leads to less self-control and why less self-control leads to criminal behavior. This research has consistently revealed that parenting styles correlate with self-control development in children, and self-control in childhood predicts a variety of important outcomes, including criminal behavior. Criminologists make their living uncovering precisely these types of associations.
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No father at home, gang associations, general tolerance for bad behavior.
It certainly runs in the Clintons family.
In utero drug exposure, high levels of lead exposure in inner cities from multiple sources, PTSD from familial violence, etc.
The list is endless for reasons why people make poor choices, but at the end of the day that doesn’t explain everything because there are always the outliers of people from bad environments that make all the right choices and escape and people from good environments who make all the wrong choices and descend into criminality.
In the end, it boils down to personal responsibility. People make choices and become the sum of those choices.
Who’s your Daddy?!?
[Is Crime Genetic? ]
CRIME is a demonic curse that passes from generation to generation. Only the atoning blood of JESUS CHRIST can break the curse.
JOHN8:36
So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free.
They might as well ask if ones political ideology is genetic, too.
I’MHO, the question is ignorant, or worse asked to solicit debate and sew division among the ignorant who fall for it.
If you grow up in a culture that celebrates instant gratification, violence, sloth, and shows disdain for a nuclear family structure, criminality is the obvious output.
100% cultural.
Social science is like climate science -- turned into a pseudoscience by political correctness.
The Wall Street Journal a couple of years ago published an article in the weekend section that reported that scientists don't want to talk about genetic racial differences either.
As the author points out, the evidence for unwanted result is compelling enough that some want to ditch the research in order to avoid unappealing policy implications. Most obviously, it will be fairly easy to correlate race, ethnicity, and class will an apparent genetic predisposition to crime.
More optimistically, within a generation, it may be possible to develop reliable and effective medical, genetic, and behavioral treatments for criminal conduct. The day may even come when criminals are given a choice between a traditional prison term or a term of rehabilitation using such methods.
Part of it is genetic. Part cultural. There is no longer any science. Would-be scientists do not conduct unbiased research any longer, because they are deathly afraid of being targeted by fang-tooth feminazis or vicious hate-filled members of certain privileged minority groups.
But they search furiously to find a genetic basis for homosexuality.
Crime itself, no, but attributes that make one more likely to engage in crime, yes. Inability to delay gratification, inability to think in multiple steps and parallel alternative consequences, lack of filtering of sensory inputs that leads to a pause and think response, instead of immediate reaction, lack of attributes that lead to employ ability, and on and on. No one of these attributes makes one a criminal, but each nudges the statistical likelihood a little further in that direction.
I saw what you did there.
Honest research might lead to real help for these people. Couldn’t have that.
So in other words - it is genetic!
Most folks don’t get the spiritual realm.
[Most folks don’t get the spiritual realm.]
It isn’t GENETIC. It is DEMONIC.
This ‘GENETIC DEFECT’ is a SPIRITUAL PLAGUE that can be eradicated by DR. JESUS.
You are right. Most folks don’t get the spiritual realm, because they are in BONDAGE.
another insetting point to consider is the case of people with stunted moral responsibility=- (IE people with frontal lobe damage) They know right from wrong, but they CHOOSE wrong and they don’t care- Some folks believed that these people were not responsible for their actions because it was thought they ‘couldn’t help themselves’ (Usually it is folks who argue against the idea of a ‘universal moral code’ that bring this argument up) but testimony from some folks with frontal lobe damage show that they do know right from wrong but choose not to do the right thing often- even to their own detriment (Some attempt to argue that this isn’t rational thinking and therefore the person ‘can’t help their actions’ yet this argument falls apart by the fact that sometimes the person does make a choice that is morally superior to bad choice- they also confess that deep down, they know right from wrong- this implies they still retain the universal moral code
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