D1 Unit 5

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Unit 5 DB 1
The essential themes of three articles for unit five activity
Introduction
For this unit we were asked to examine three articles and then list the essential themes for those articles. The articles that were chosen were: Genetic Risk for Violent Behavior and Environmental Exposure to Disadvantage and Violent Crime: The Case for Gene–Environment Interaction; Avoiding Violent Victimization Among Youths in Urban Neighborhoods: The Importance of Street Efficacy, and Female juvenile murderers: Biological and psychological dynamics leading to homicide. We will also discuss if biological and socialization factors can induce and interact violent behaviors, and then we will examine what type of tactics gangs might use to encourage juveniles
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Stealing, or delivering drugs); their family member already belong to a gang, and make their other family member join to keep up the gang tradition; by tell the youth that if they commit the crime that they will offer them protection; challenge youth to take violent risks; they have the juvenile attend parties where they can witness gang related activities or occurrences; or by threaten the safety of friends or family members.
Those are just some of the tactics that gangs may use to encourage youths to commit violent acts, but there is one more part, and that is, that none of the above will work on youths that are strong minded, it will only work on youths whose world seems hopeless. They are the ones that gang lenders focus on to do violent crimes. They do this because the youth will not say “NO’ to the assignment, they want to please their new found family, or they believe that the world does not care about them so why not commit the crime, these individuals are prime for the taking, and gang leaders love that.
What are the comparative significance and impact of biological, psychological, and social factors in violent youth
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1) they tend to ignore social factor/ environmental and psychological factors which equally may play a role in explaining criminal behavior. Therefore, it is better to think of ‘biological factors’ in explaining crime, but, despite the many factors and causes one thing is for sure is that individuals make their own choices (rational choice theory) about their behavior; and some individuals even ponder a life of crime as being better than a regular job, and they state to themselves that their violent crime brings in greater excitement, admiration, and rewards at least until they are caught. The juveniles’ criminal act creates a thirst and desire for “material gain (money or expensive belongings) leads to property crimes such as robberies, burglaries, white-collar crimes, and auto thefts” (“Causes of Crime – Explaining”, 2004), which leads to violent crimes such as assaults, murders, and usually occur on the spur of the moment or impulses when the juveniles’ emotions are running