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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the issue of deviance and the role that deviance from social order plays on the decision to participate in criminal behaviors. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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each other and the subsequent application of social learning theory to the development of both. Criminal behaviors are acts of deviance against social norms and are conducted in the
presence of perceived benefits, which outweigh the risks. Assessments of deviance and crime require a consideration of the basis for the development of deviant behaviors, the factors that lead
to criminality and the foundational theories that inherently impact how these are viewed. Existing studies show that the most prevalent underlying reasons
for criminality include geography, lack of education, parental deviance, social handicap and poverty (Ludwig, Duncan & Hirschfield, 2001). In fact, juvenile criminality, an underlying factor in adult criminality, is
linked to poverty, which often leads to the view of lack of mobility and lack of opportunity (Ludwig, Duncan & Hirschfield, 2001). Though the connection between poverty and the
underlying factors that lead to criminality appear anecdotally supported, crime theories also relate a number of social concepts to understanding the progression of deviance towards criminality.
Sampson (2000) recognized that criminal theories are linked to perspectives on the social stratification of communities, on the fact that individuals who are born into
lower socioeconomic conditions often do not have the opportunities or the resources to move out of that social stratum. Parental criminality often becomes a means of providing resources in
the family, and social learning theory is the foundation from which parental criminality becomes cyclical. Childhood decisions regarding social deviance and criminality are linked to familial perspectives when considering
the application of stratification (Albuquerque, 2007). Both crime and poverty, then, are linked to perspectives on social deviance, on the embracing of ideals that go against societal expectations or
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