Family Effects on Criminal Behavior

It is rare for a person to see someone, who comes from a “good” family per say, to get into criminal behavior but it does happen. These people are brought up in this world with high standards and at some point they just can’t take it. They’re brought up with high expectations on them so when they can’t be met they find a way to cope. They turn to things, such as drug abuse, to make it through their situations. Others are just anti-social so they don’t know another way out but to turn to something that will accept them.
Family has a major effect on what they’ll do. If they expect them how they are flaws and all they’re more likely to stay away from criminal behavior. But if they expect nothing but perfection and then are shunned on for not meeting those standards, they find a way to cope. They turn to things that you wouldn’t expect them to do. They’re brought up to high expectations.
Then there’s people who aren’t brought up in a “good family” and don’t turn to the criminal behavior. These people are doing it for themselves. They saw what it was like to come from a “poor family” and don’t want to be that way the rest of their lives. They know what it’s like to live without the things they need and they want better for their future.
They aren’t held to meet high expectations so any type of accomplishment they met is highly looked upon. But then there is the person who was brought up in a “good family” and isn’t looked upon as doing something so amazing. They just break at some point. But the ones who don’t come from a “good” family are given praise.
People that come from a “good” family have more pressure on them to be a better person. They have high family values to meet. In Agnew’s Sources of Strain and Their Consequences it states one of the sources of strain is failure to achieve goals and one of the negative affective states could be anger or frustration. So then they turn to drug abuse or violence. But in some cases it’s not the family who has