Criminological Theory and Burglary

These criminals don't have any money because they do not have jobs or they have underpaid jobs. The jobs they can get are unskilled, low paying ones. Burglars are generally uneducated or lazy. They spend all their money on drugs and then don't have money to pay for necessities.

Throughout the novel Burglars on the Job: Streetlife and Residential Beak-ins, the authors Richard T. Wright and Scott Decker study the interactions of those who are within the subculture of being burglars and how, why and who they commit these offenses toward. Within this paper we will be discussing the relationship of Merton's anomie theory and how this theory correlates to the acts and motivation of the individuals to accomplish the ability to acquire the means of society. Also we will be evaluating these individuals by explaining Hirschi's social bonds theory allowing this to help us better understand those who have personal relationships and what effects this has on the

In this paper I examine the effects of reflected appraisals on current and past offenders as well as on the remainder of society. Those who have criminal backgrounds often do not feel that they are defined as being criminals, however, society still tends to label them as such and does not fully accept them. A brief history of reflected appraisals is given as well as a general explanation about how the theory works. I then examine the causes and effects of reflected appraisal as well as offering advice on how the social stigmas of prisoners held by society and the stigmas that prisoners hold about society can be removed. Lastly, I describe

limiting the ability to generalize findings as correlates and patterns can vary across crime types.

Cornish and Clarke begin the lead in allowing for work on why offenders enjoyed committing crimes to be accepted. Following Katz used this again to explain in more depth why offenders feel the need to commit crimes. They have found differing factors in females and males; generally males lack self-control and empathy. Females are more influenced by the morality of the crime. Generally no matter the sex their peers will play a large role in the deciding factor. “This framework emphasizes all the important factors that go into a person’s decision to engage or not engage in a particular act” (p.54). This family in all aspects shows the intent and decision making on multiple occasions to commit crimes, the one when one white family member shot his uncle in the face shows a clear decision to engage in multiple acts of illegal activity. He was under the influence of drugs and already around peers who encouraged unhealthy behavior, and with low self-control it was an awful

Crime and Everyday Life is written by Marcus Felson and Mary Eckert. Marcus Felson is a Criminal Justice Professor at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Dr. Felson originated Routine Activity Theory. Dr. Felson has applied routine activity to several topics, which include: theft, violence, child molestation, white-collar crime, and corruption. Dr. Felson is also an expert on Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis. Mary Eckert, Marcus Felson’s wife, is a professor at New York University, Montclair State University, and Texas State University. Aside from teaching, Dr. Eckert has devoted her time to research in criminal justice and program evaluation. She has also worked for the New Jersey Office of the

There are many different aspects of criminal justice policy. One in particular is the different theories of crime and how they affect the criminal justice system. The Classical School of criminology is a theory about evolving from a capital punishment type of view to more humane ways of punishing people. Positivist criminology is maintaining the control of human behavior and criminal behavior. They did this through three different categories of Biological studies, which are five methodologies of crime that were mainly focused on biological theories, Psychological theories, which contains four separate theories, and the Sociological theories, which also includes four different methods of explaining why crime exists. The last theory is

There are many reason home invasions occur and there are also several common motives that cause home invasion robberies. One of the most obvious motives of home invasion is, “steal valuable items, such as cash, drugs, or property, which can be sold for cash” (Heinonen & Eck,n.d). I believe the second motives could deal with retaliation it could be dealing with someone wrong doing a person or it could be also retaliation, “against a rival drug dealer, gang member, or domestic partner; robbery is part of the retaliation”( Heinonen & Eck,n.d.). The last motives are cold to me because it deals with sexual assault, which could cause robbery which was not intended but down to cover up the sexual assault. The home invasion offenders have five characteristics

The criminals, in this case, see engagement in robbery activities as a way of achieving their goals.

Sampson and Laub 's age-graded theory focuses on informal social control to understand crime through the life course. The main ideas they focused on were transitions (life events such as marriage or incarceration), trajectories (pathways of one 's life) and turning points (Sampson, & Laub, 1993). This theory was able to show why and how involvement in crime peaks during certain periods in one 's life, and why many desist at certain times in their life. These ideas can be meshed together with institutional anomie factors like types of adaptations and escape mechanisms that people use.

Occasional offenders do not consider themselves as deviants, and most try to rationalize their behaviors so in their mind they haven’t committed a criminal act (Clinard and Meier, 2014). Many of the rationalizations are discussed in “The Devil Made Me Do It: Use Of Neutralizations By Shoplifters” by Cromwell and Thurman. Our main offense that we committed was vandalism, which is the destruction of property (Clinard and Meier, 2014). We would consider most of the damage we caused as a funny prank with no real injury, even though it was causing actual damage to people’s property. This falls under the neutralization of Denial of injury discussed by Sykes and Matza (Cromwell and Thurman, 2003). We believed that since the individuals were wealthy we weren’t really doing any injury to them. Another neutralization we would use was that everyone does it so it isn’t bad. We would do these acts of vandalism as a group so since we were all doing it, we perceived the delinquent actions as okay (Thurman and Cromwell, 2003). As an adult it is hard to not look back and feel bad about some of the things we did, but at the time we really just thought we were having fun with our friends. The Saints also were occasional offenders, committing acts of vandalism as well as shoplifting (Chambliss, 1996). The Saints also justified their actions as just having fun and didn’t consider themselves as criminals. We also avoided

Offenders and their criminal acts are radically different when it comes to the reason why they actually commit a particular crime. That is why, numerous rehabilitation programmes in prisons have been launched, so that they start to manage their behaviour. If we, for example, look specifically at sex offender treatment, we will notice that there have been a lot of debates about the actual reason why sex offenders are acting in such deviant way. It might be a personality disorder or the exact opposite-they are perfectly aware of what unpleasant thing they are doing (Crow, 2001). Fortunately, a substantial research demonstrates that sex offenders are less likely

The fact is that most burglars are very clever criminals. It takes a lot of time and intelligence to case an Austin neighborhood and closely analyze the area for vulnerable spots. A lot of planning goes into one burglary. Certainly, a burglary takes a certain mindset and intelligence to plan or execute a successful burglary.

1. Darrow claims that if the people currently incarcerated would have been given the opportunity to follow a career outside of crime, then those people would not be in jail. Darrow's assertion is supported by the knowledge that people are inclined to commit a crime when they are facing hardship as it is the path of least opposition. The underlying assumption that is associated with this idea is that people are willing to commit to their profession instead of reaching for the low hanging fruit provided by robbery or burglary. This assumption can go either way based on whether or not the group in question is truly committed to earning an honest living through hard work.

In my life I have met or had the honor of knowing three people who have followed down the path of criminality. Now these three people were people that I grew up with in my neighborhood or neighborhoods I use to hang out in. Furthermore, some of these people had some form of talent that could have landed them in either the NBA or NFL but due to their life of crime and other issues it placed them in prison. Although, all of the three did not have these talent they still could have found ways be a good citizen. Nevertheless, neither one of the three I will discuss had to fall into a life of crime but after learning about the different theories I now see why they may have done it.