Are Criminals Born or Made?


The society is riddled with crime. This is because the environment can only be enjoined in a secured form. Crime threatens peace, safety and security of lives and property as such members of the society will continue to live in fear when crime occurs, either in its non-violent form or sophisticated form. Crime represents the unknown and when this situation exists at a high level it causes anxiety and mortal terror among the citizenry. Example of this is what we are experiencing on daily basis in the country. Criminals derive mental satisfaction from their acts.
The statement 'Are criminal born, or made? is wide reaching and has remained the subject of many debates. Beginning several decades ago with social and criminal anthropologists wondering at causes of criminality and deliequency and set about to investigate them.
Most theorists at the time believed that it had to be deep-rooted traits, an innate tendency. Over the years that followed, many other sociologists and psychologists have tried to answer this complicated question with some staying on the side of biological causes such as heredity, and some looking further into environmental causes. There are many factor surrounding this arguments for both sides.
Evidence now also suggests that criminality is linked to economics and income inequilities. Glaser & Rise (1959) found unemployment to be a significant factor in property crime. They also found out that deliequency is inversely related to unemployment; that is, deliequency is high when unemployment is low and vice versa. They suggested that this might be due to the fact that in times of unemployment, parents were more available to their children. In furtherance to this, Block found in 1979 that it is young adults who are most likely to have criminal tendencies if they are also not employed.
It is therefore a very complex and ongoing argument whether criminals are born or made. Another study by Goring postulated that crime was neither by environment nor heredity, but as a result of an interaction between the two. A view held by many cirminologists today.
Modern studies and theories are much in favour of environmental causes of criminality which can be controlled or repressed.
Therefore, criminality is certainly not an innate tendency, but a lifestyle imposed upon certain individuals by their environment as a result of interaction with the environment.


Nelson T. Sande (MCrim.FL)

No one was born a criminal the society forges you into one , all human are born with selfishness. Society brings out the greed and other vices in us.

Society doesn't force anyone to become a criminal neither is one born a criminal.

The society didn't force the perpetrator of this crime below to do that neither was he born as one

In other words, Criminals are made?
Beautiful !

Some people are born with the genetic disposition to be tall, smart, sexy, etc so its not far fetched to say some are born with the genetic disposition to easily gravitate towards crime to meet their desires.


In the physical and metaphysical World, ALL things fall into a spectrum.