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5 pages in length. The author discusses environment, gang activity, lack of or ineffectual rehabilitation in prison, and inability to garner successful employment as proponents that contribute to the recidivism of criminals. No bibliography.
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There are as many reasons why criminals repeat the same or different crimes, as there are criminals. Dr. Peter Breggin, the director of the
Center for the Study of Psychiatry in Bethesda, Maryland, declared, "The primary problems that afflict human beings are not due to their bodies or brains, they are due to the
environment" (Toufexis). The causes of crime are material conditions, such as poor employment opportunities, and a shortage of adequately funded social programs. This is
the "official" view of the root causes of crime according to American social scientist Patrick Fagan. He argues that the "real" root cause of criminal behavior is "the absence
of marriage and the failure to form and maintain intact families." Mr. Fagan identifies 10 predictors in early home life of violent criminal behavior. "When the future
violent criminal is born, his father has already abandoned the mother; if his parents are married, they are likely to divorce by the third year; he is raised in a
neighborhood with a high concentration of single-parent families; he does not become securely attached to his mother during the critical early years of his life; his child care frequently changes;
the adults in his life frequently quarrel and vent their frustrations physically; he, or a member of his family, may suffer one or more forms of abuse, including sexual abuse;
there is much harshness in his home and he is deprived of affection; he becomes hostile, anxious, and hyperactive; he is difficult to manage at age three and is frequently
labeled as a behavior problem; lacking his fathers presence and attention, he becomes increasingly aggressive" (Teel). A 19th century
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