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A 6 page exploration of the many factors that influence criminal behavior. This paper is divided into three sections: Greatest Criminal Threat to the General Public, Environment and the Crime Rate, and Behavioral Theory and the Crime Rate. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Greatest Criminal Threat to the General Public While all criminal activity is a threat to the general public, violent criminal behavior
causes the greatest threat because it is associated with bodily injury or even death. Our societal efforts to control violent crimes, however, too often take an ineffective approach.
Violent crime, for example, is often associated with guns and considerable societal effort has been directed as controlling the publics access to guns. Gun control attempts through legislation, however,
have been a miserable failure in their efforts to control and reduce violent crimes associated with gun use (American Hunter, 2000).
Anti-gun proponents, with the sympathy and reinforcement of a liberal press corps, have continually ignored and altered facts in an effort to further their agendas of ridding law abiding citizens
of their firearms. "Taking the Guns" is simply not the right approach to reducing incidents of violent crimes. Instead the Justice Department should concentrate on such societal problems
as poverty and drug abuse, two of the more important correlates of crime. So too should the Justice Department focus greater resources on deterring individuals from crime.
Socioeconomically disadvantaged and lesser educated individuals seem to be more likely to engage in criminal acts. Education is a critical element, of
course, in this equation. Certain groups, however, are not only more likely to commit violent crimes but also highly resistant to education. Miethe and McDowall (1993), along with
numerous other authors, relate this observation to the class stratification as observed in the southern United States and to differences between the races. Consider black males as an
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