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social behavior with a recognized purpose" (Andersen & Taylor, 2005, 128). There are a number of theories that help to explain crime by examining the institutions under which the criminals
have grown up. For example, someone who is involved in organized crime will likely have grown up in a crime family. Members of the family are involved in criminal activities
and such behavior become second nature to a child who lives within the family structure. There are a number of theories that help to explain organized crime and ordinary criminal
behavior that draw on environmental causes like social institutions. Organized crime again is a family business so the family, as a social institution, can help to foster criminals. Similarly,
gang affiliation is often tied to the family. Clive Gifford (2006) writes about the topic in a book entitled Gangs. The author explains that some gangs are new, but other
gangs have been in existence for sixty years or more (Gifford, 2006). It is also explained that sometimes, children grow up in families where there are multiple family members involved
in gangs (Gifford, 2006). Thus, it becomes all that they know (Gifford, 2006). While many families try to keep their children away from gangs, organized crime families, and crime in
general, sometimes the family is what instigates it. Travis Hirschi for example claims, with his social bond theory, that a typical criminal grows up in a slum without a
father, and is unemployed with a poor school history (Walsh & Hemmens, 2008). This is a stereotype of course, but within the context of the Social Bond theory, there are
elements of various institutions that cause problems. The fact that someone is fatherless implies that the family has broken up, and that there is in fact a problem within the
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