Theories of Crime and Motivation

Theories of Crime and Motivation

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Why people commit crimes? The answer is through deviant theories. In order to talk about theories that fit petit crimes as assaults, robbery, shoplifting determine which theory best explains sexual crimes like rape or molestation, Organized crime, Mass murder, and Terrorism I need to define what deviant means to my society. Deviance is acts that violate social norms of society. But the occurrence is more compounds then what we know. Deviant behaviors are not the same all over the world it is ok in some places to have more than one wife polygamist. fully expected to have girlfriends (Janofsky,

2001; Rosenthal, 1998a).

Third, whether a given act is deviant depends on

public consensus. Murder is unquestionably deviant

because nearly all societies agree that it is. In contrast,

drinking alcoholic beverages is generally not

considered deviant. Public consensus, however, usually

reflects the vested interests of the rich and powerful.

As Marx would have said, the ideas of the

ruling class tend to become the ruling ideas of society.

Like the powerful, the general public tends, for

example, to consider bank robbery a serious crime

but not fraudulent advertising, which serves the interests

of the powerful.

In view of these three determinants of deviant behavior,

we may define deviance more precisely as an

act considered by public consensus, or by the powerful,

at a given time and place, to be a violation of

some social rule.

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