The Social Influences Of Criminology - 2270 Words

Criminology has chosen to concentrate on the social influences that contribute to criminality, instead of concentrating on the neurological and genetic factors of violent behavior. For many years, psychologists have attempted to fathom the idea of murder and what it truly takes for someone to become a ruthless killer. There is an ample amount of factors that can lead to an act of violence, like murder, or the creation of a murderer such as nurture (the way one is raised or the type of environment one grows and matures in), nature (environmental factors or the psychological aspects of one’s mind), and motivation(a goal obtainable only through murder.) Every murderer is different; some kill for the thrill of it, to put money in their wallets†¦show more content†¦Once the question of what exactly creates a murderer or what specifically leads a person to take one’s life to ‘benefit’ their own is answered and the source of all murders is pinpointed, the path to, essentially, the start of searching for an end to murder or even other forms of violence in America or other parts of the world will be paved. Intellectual and mental disorders have greatly impacted and continue to impact society as a whole. There are mental disorders, such as anxiety, panic disorder, and depression, that affect the individual and those close to them directly, but do not pose as a potential threat to themselves or society. There are, however, mental disorders that disrupt one’s ability to decipher and differentiate between reality and the deranged world they hold within. Violenet outbursts caused by such disorders can be categorized into premeditated or impulsive violence. For example, the effect of the drug phenytoin on prisoners restricts the impulsive violence but not premeditated violence, which suggests that the different types of aggression have different and may even be located in different parts of the brain. For example, those who undergo a paranoid schizophrenic reaction have the inability to identify what is real and what is not. This alters a person’s ability to tell right from wro ng; this sudden outburst of violence essentially deprives a person from having a stable