Hmmmm, nature & nurture ... interesting. We speak of society here right? When I read the heading of this thread Major Pain immidiately screamed in my head, "YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT CAUSES IT HUH, THE
FUCKIN' PARENTS IS WHAT CAUSES IT!!!".
But being as I am not very well versed in sociology, I'm gonna have to go with ...
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Originally Posted by dippin
... payoff, opportunity, and penalty ....
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Dippin, these actually paint the picture perfectly.
Who can clearly explain why career criminals, yes,
career, like it's something you grow up aspiring to become, think the way they do. They live for the moment, and they live long. Their main job and task at hand is to spread and unite under discourse. Their mentality is actually so well er.. ingrained in that the way you plan to get a job and make money so you can go to the grocery store is the same way they think out their next hit.
A personality comes into play when one doesn't need to rationalize something, they just do it. They know it's wrong, but it got to the point it doesnt bother them anymore. Hence we have steady recruits to gangs and cliques turning into gangs.
I hereby venture that the cause of societal violence is in fact so complex that everyone who posts here with a different theory will be not only right, but such a theory linked to others will be so intricate.