Analysis: What It Takes To Be A Biological Criminal
Running head: What it Takes to be a Biological Criminal
What it Takes to be a Biological Criminal
Criminal behaviors range widely in their seriousness and their affect the public. The bulk of criminal behavior consists of mostly mundane acts such as burglary, robbery and assaults. On the other hand there are a few individuals that kill people and then mutilate their victims bodies. Much of the public can easily believe that there is something wrong psychologically with those few individuals though others may argue that these people are just evil. Thinkquest explains that biological determinism as a theory claims that humans - their appearance, behavior, and even long-term fate - are entirely determined by genes. Biological determinists disregard or deny the effects of environmental variables on the expression …show more content…
Some believe that people are born the way that they are and thats the way that they will act. Yet others debate that it depends on how the person was brought up (i.e environmental factors). These include things such as if they come from a background of criminal history in their family, where they grew up or the income of the family. Even still with all the tests that have happened through the years no one knows. This leads to the conclusion that criminal behavior is not just brought about by someones biology but it is also brought out by the environment that they came from. In his book Wright reveals a much better metaphor reflecting the relationship of genes to the final products we call human beings. He calls biologically determined aspects of human behavior the "knobs" of human nature, and environmental factors the forces responsible for "tuning" those knobs (1994). This essentially means that everyone is born with the capacity to do harm/ cause criminal behavior, but it is the environment that sets these thought/ actions off in our
What it Takes to be a Biological Criminal
Criminal behaviors range widely in their seriousness and their affect the public. The bulk of criminal behavior consists of mostly mundane acts such as burglary, robbery and assaults. On the other hand there are a few individuals that kill people and then mutilate their victims bodies. Much of the public can easily believe that there is something wrong psychologically with those few individuals though others may argue that these people are just evil. Thinkquest explains that biological determinism as a theory claims that humans - their appearance, behavior, and even long-term fate - are entirely determined by genes. Biological determinists disregard or deny the effects of environmental variables on the expression …show more content…
Some believe that people are born the way that they are and thats the way that they will act. Yet others debate that it depends on how the person was brought up (i.e environmental factors). These include things such as if they come from a background of criminal history in their family, where they grew up or the income of the family. Even still with all the tests that have happened through the years no one knows. This leads to the conclusion that criminal behavior is not just brought about by someones biology but it is also brought out by the environment that they came from. In his book Wright reveals a much better metaphor reflecting the relationship of genes to the final products we call human beings. He calls biologically determined aspects of human behavior the "knobs" of human nature, and environmental factors the forces responsible for "tuning" those knobs (1994). This essentially means that everyone is born with the capacity to do harm/ cause criminal behavior, but it is the environment that sets these thought/ actions off in our