Shaka Senghor’s Ted Talk discussed “Why your worst deeds don’t define you” and how he used his experience in prison to rehabilitate himself. Shaka Senghor was in prison for two decades for murdering a man when he was nineteen years old over drugs. At the time he was a drug dealer living in Detroit. While in prison he mostly had given up on everything and kept making situation worse and worse for himself. Eventually he ended up getting himself into solitary confinement which he said is the most inhumane part of prison. He realized when he was in prison that the reason he went down this dark path was because of his parents’ divorce and the abusive environment he was in. Another reason he had found was that after he was shot three times while standing on the corner of his…show more content… Cohen and Felson deliberate over what is needed for a criminal to be a criminal. These criminals, according to them, have to be motivated, have suitable targets, absence of capable guardians, and have problems influenced by daily activities. They said “In any event, it is our belief that criminologists have emphasized the importance of the convergence of suitable targets and the absence of suitable guardians in explaining recent increases in the crime rate” (Cohen and Felson, 1111, 427). Shaka Senghor talked about this exact topic through his own life and his own experiences. He had a troubling past with his parents separating and he had said that he also had an abusive childhood. This was one of the factors Cohen and Felson talked about. He also had suitable targets being the people he dealt drugs to, it was a part of his daily routine, and he was motivated by his anger when something went wrong. When Shaka was in prison he started to realize that everyone else around him had the same factors that led them to being in prison. They all correlated with Cohen and Felon’s “Routine Activity Theory” and with his own
