Sociological Factors Of Crime And Crime

Homicide/Murder is a very well-known criminal behavior. However, the complexity of this criminal behavior comes from the wide scale from who commits it, why they commit it and how to stop it from being committed. Murder/”Homicide rates in the United States remain among the highest in the Western World. Homicide offenders tend to be also recidivist offenders, often not necessarily in terms of homicide reoffending but in terms of general delinquent recidivism” (Loeber & Ahonen, 2013). People from all walks of life are a part of this criminal behavior, from rich to poor, from white to black, from male and female to old and young. Murder is broken down into two categories, first degree murder and second degree murder. “First degree is a homicide

Poverty, lack of education, “nothing to lose” mindset, substance abuse and environment are key players for people who commit homicide. Whites and blacks are often compared with murder because they are majority of the population as well as they are viewed to be on different ends of the spectrum in society, although they do overlap. “The results show that where residential segregation is higher, and where whites’ levels of homeownership, median income, college graduation, and professional workers exceed those for blacks to a greater degree, African Americans have much higher levels of homicide offending than whites. The homicide gap is not only due to levels of black social conditions alone; levels of black disadvantage and resources have only modest associations with the racial gap in killings (Velez, Kriyo & Peterson, 2003). These disadvantages cause for certain populations such as the black community, to have higher rates of

This theory basically stands on a person’s actions being based on the expected outcome of their behavior. This contribute to people killing people in the middle of a robbery, gang members killing people and even when people kill the person they are in a relationship with. Julian “Rotter’s theory to criminal behavior, we would say that when people engage in unlawful conduct, they expect to gain something in the form of status, power, security, affection, material goods, or living conditions. The violent person, for example, may elect to behave that way in the belief that something will be gained; the serial murderer might believe that God has sent him on a mission to eliminate all “loose” women, and thus by doing so he pleases God; the woman who poisons an abusive husband looks for an improvement in her life situation” (Bartol & Bartol, 2010). As stated previously, most people murder because of the outcome they have seen before. They also commit murder because they think it is the most effective behavior for their situation. The Expectancy Theory answers many etiologies for murder. This theory shows and explains that a person may murder for gain or simply because they feel they can be successful with their actions because it has been done in the past. All in all, people “people enter situations with generalized expectancies about the outcomes of their behavior is an important one for students of