Dysfunctional Family: Breaking The Law

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I think there is a cluster of different factors into why an individual would want to break the law. Much of the influence that takes part is the way the child was brought up in their development period. One of the core motivations for a person to grow up to break the law is a dysfunctional family.
The reason why I think that a dysfunctional family plays such a huge role in a child’s behavior is because majority of families that are dysfunctional do not have the time or care to attend to the child’s needs and notice the behavioral issues. Growing up in Trenton NJ, I can say that I have seen this first hand over and over. A kid parents may not be together and the child could just have one parent. Being a single parent is a tough task especially …show more content…

They people who this individual thought would always have their back is almost always nowhere to be found because to them it is just another friend that is locked up. After their “friend” seems as they are helpless they turn to the next person in line, their parents or guardian. This is most of the time also a failed attempt due to the lack of relationship that they now obtain. With no one to turn to the individual is now facing time in corrections with a criminal history on their foreheads. From here it is most of the time a cycle of in and out of jail unless the person can find a way to find something that will motivate them from going back to jail or prison such as a career or a child. This is where the marriage factor theory comes into play to show that they can and need to mature out of crime. Sometimes this is not enough and the individual will turn to what they know best and that’s the streets. If they turn back to the streets and get arrested while they have a child this will cause another dysfunctional family cause the cycle in families that is tough to be

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