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RE: Rehearsal of Human Criminal Behavior
I was kind of amused to start your very interesting post with a tale (yes, I personally do not buy the Cain and Abel story).
On a more serious matter, I am quite convinced the environment in which anyone evolves plays a big role. I am quite convinced that someone with some "born-killer" aptitudes could end as a nicely-behaving human if evolving in an appropriate environment, and vice versa: someone could get crazy if he is surrounded by the wrong people. Of course, I have nothing to back up my naive thoughts. I however find it weird that in your post, everything is reduced to biological factors.
Somehow, I tend to agree with @abigail-dantes :)
Hey @lemouth,
I think you're right about that, because here, too, you can draw on science and say that "unhealthy behaviour" of living beings most likely will become "healthy behaviour" when the framework in which they move is changed. Create an environment that is good for coexistence and culture and the participants in the system adapt. Create a difficult, mono-environment where strict survival seems to be at stake and you also have participants adapted to that environment. Even genes adapt to their environment - is what I have read somewhere - and are not "static". Everything is an interplay of multiple factors and this interplay is so complex that mono-causality is no longer an option in the latest sciences anyway.
Thanks for agreeing with my guesses (which sounds quite logical to me, but human logics is not science :) ).
I think one does not exclude the other :) For example, a fisher man living all his life at the shore does not use data (quantitative scientific evidence) to make his decisions but his experience with the weather and the sea. So we people use our life experience where we may have known a person changing "from Saulus to Paulus", readjusting his lifestyle from a former criminal to a non criminal.
I agree with this. This is clearly a combination of different parameters and which one dominates is probably also an individual-dependent statement :)
Hello @lemouth.
The first or second paragraph of the thematic introduction to my publications, generally I do some mythological, legendary, historical story or that is sprinkled of humorous interest. However, I clarify the context and frame the differentiation between the previous plane and scientific arenas.
The field of criminology is so extensive that being interdisciplinary it lacks integration of other sciences to obtain more effective results. Hence it is said to be a young science that will never age because it is constantly evolving and progressing. Meanwhile, this essay is a fragment of an academic work that I share in the form of a post. In it I subjectively make some considerations according to the specialized literature that I have reviewed.
From my own experience and also from documentary references, I know that external factors, being precisely sociology the one in charge of the study of multiple social and environmental factors that are generally linked to criminal behavior.
Between disciplines such as criminal psychology and sociology are precisely in charge of studying this type of behavior in order to establish causal analysis that allows following a corrective treatment. However, to deal with such a complex and at the same time controversial topic from an interdisciplinary point of view in an expansive way in a single article is extremely ambitious. I have not yet reached that synthetic capacity.
However, it helps me to better understand the structuring of the title and the scope or delimitation of the post. I only made reference that the topic will continue, but I did not make it clear that in its content I gather the contributions of the positivist school and particularly of Cesare Lombroso.
Your valuable comments are important to improve my ability to write articles with scientific input. So I appreciate those details that contribute to my growth as a writer.
Oh I didn't know that. I think that it is the first time I read something from you (at least as I remember).
Ah I understand now. Therefore, I guess I will need to wait a little bit before you start discussing my points. That's fair enough, as I am a patient person :D
I am thus looking forward to the next episode!