Deviant Behavior:

The three categories of criminological theory used to explain drug use The three broad criminological theories for drug use include biological, sociological, and psychological theories (Akers, 2013). Biological theories argue that certain individuals are susceptible to drug use and addiction due to genetic reasons. According to biological theories, such individuals have a higher likelihood of experiencing extremely powerful effects and, consequently, become psychologically and physiologically dependent on certain drugs. Psychological

Robert Martin proposed structural strain theory and according to him social structures and social pressures are put on people to achieve the desired goals and therefore lead the individuals to commit crime. There are five modes of adaptation which are conformity, innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion

Cultural factors can affect behavioral approaches and personal beliefs, needs, values, and desires a person has in life. For many decades in Africa, the majority population was subjected to manifestly unjust rulings to keep them as hewers of wood or drawers of water. Comprehensibly, a “culture” of flouting, resisting, subverting, and patently disregarding such laws grew, abetted, and aided by unconcerned law enforcement whose objective was that the masses be

Introduction

Critical conflict practices are better in understanding the causes of developing responses to pipe vandalism in comparison to earlier perspectives of social ecology, opportunity, and situation identified by Hasley. Critical criminology practices uncover reasons for crime across wider structural and institutional contexts. The approach is more practical as it assesses crime and focuses more on its production and relies on multifaceted standpoints.

Although crime has a punitive connotation, it is not universal. An act crime in the US might not be categorized as a crime in India. Crime is usually punishable and prohibited by the legal system and crossing those legal boundaries engenders crime if the place where a person lives considers it offensive and criminal.

Abstract

Various historical and economic reasons lead to the preference of alternatives to incarceration in jails for the offenders. Thus, the alternatives are meant to ease some burden that is caused by having too many offenders in government jails. Some of the reasons behind the decision include the following:

Introduction

Is the Three Strikes law effective in reducing crime?