The question still remains; Is being a criminal a genetic result or is it the influence of others around you? No matter how much research you do on this topic the answer really comes down to your own opinion. Many experts such as criminologists and Psychologists have donated years of research and tests to figure out the true answer. They both have very different but interesting opinions and are both dead set on them. Most criminologists believe that it is who you surround yourself with, while psychologists believe it is genetics and psychological problems that just pop up during your life. After doing some research i still don't exactly have a straight forward opinion.
Phychologists say that if you are a criminal it is genetically inherited. With saying this, it is hard to believe that this could be true, because if it were genetics then women and men would be at equal criminal rates. The men criminal rates out number the women criminal weights by a long shot. So how could genetics have anything to do with it? African Americans are accounted for 40 percent of the Part I violent crimes arrests and 34 percent of property crime arrests, and they only make up twelve percent of the population. So what im saying is it could be genetics because if most of the crime in the United States is happening from African Americans then there is a big chance there is a genetic link in there somewhere. So if an African American couple who were criminals had kids, there kids would have blood relation to criminals, and they could grow up to be what their parents where.
However, Criminologists think differently. They believe it is who you grow up around and how you are treated by your parents as a child. The roots of violence is believed to be suggest that a small number of inherently violence-prone individuals may themselves have been the victims of physical or psychological abnormalities. Although infants demonstrate individual temperaments, who they become later in life has a lot to do with how they were treated in early years." People who are constantly exposed to violence at home, at school, or in the enviroment may adopt violent methods themselves"(Wadsworth 325).Signs of a kid who could have later behavioral problems or agression are difficult temperament problems as an infant. Children neglected in childhood are initiated into criminality when they grow up. There is a powerful relationship between exposure to physical punishment and later being aggressive. Criminologists basicly believe that it is all about exposure to violence growing up.
