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EVIDENCE: MY SENSE OF JUSTICE • Some people are biologically predisposed to become criminals. I agree whit this statement. However, this is not the only factor that conditioned someone to become in a criminal. Recent twin studies show persuasive evidence that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to antisocial behavior. However, the genetic evidence indicates that there is no single gene, or even a small number of genes, that predict an increased risk of antisocial behavior. Where there have been some effects, the increase in risk associated with antisocial behavior is modest. • Crime is a consequence of poverty. I agree, but I regard that crime is not only due to poverty, also people can become in a criminal due to other reasons like mental diseases. However, I consider that poverty is the main reason and below I will explain why. Poverty causes many crimes, as, if a person was not poor and had faith in himself, he would not face the thought that he should search another ways to get money. Being poor, which could be caused by different reasons, makes a person unhappy, incapable to earn enough money, to buy anything he wants or at least something necessary. Poverty determines a certain stereotype in a person’s thoughts, and he does not see any constructive solving of the problem, as he wants to choose the easiest way of getting money, even harming other people. Poverty has a huge psychological influence on people, who become depressed, desperate and then they decide to commit a crime, as they have not found anything that can legally get them out of such situation. Too many problems that a person faces in the modern society makes him get angrier on the whole situation and look for the new way of solving their problem. The desperate economic situation in any country and consequently the lack of the work places especially for young people creates the thoughts and actions of crime. No guarantees from the government and no proper help to people who are poor, leads to the chaos and misunderstanding, where the only way out they find is to commit a crime.

• A criminal cannot be reformed. I disagree with this statement, because, I think a criminal can be reformed, how? Making social reforms in order to give them another opportunity. The main problem that offenders face, when it comes to deciding on a career or a life of crime, is that many criminals are excluded from the traditional career path due to their criminal record, often from an early age. A new system needs to be in place so that a criminal record background check, especially for minor offenders, is only relevant to the career path they follow. For example, people caught selling drugs cannot work as a pharmacist, people accused of fraud cannot work as an accountant or financial advisor, people accused of sex offences cannot work in care homes, public swimming baths, etc. This is just a few examples. I met someone who was moving from the private sector to the public sector, working training prisoners. He was in his thirties and despite having no other convictions he was refused the job because he stole a watermelon from a market stall when he was sixteen. This is clearly ridiculous. If you are arrested for being in possession of one joint when you are eighteen that can stop you from getting any decent job in the future • To reduce crime, we just need more police. I strongly disagree with this statement; Police are important, but not sufficient, in the crime-reduction effort. Policing experts and criminologists say that increasing the size of a police force does not ensure a decrease in crime. They said that other issues must be weighed, like what roles existing officers were filling and whether adding officers would cause added stress in communities where tensions between the police and residents were already high. On the other hand, crime is a clear consequence to lack of opportunities and access to education system. When a person since his childhood cannot get access to education, most of times him or her do not find another option to survive, that to criminal life. We clearly can see that in countries like Finland where access to education is easy, crime rates are so low, contrarily, countries like for example Somalia have a high crime rate. • Some criminals deserve the death penalty I agree, in the case of hazard criminals, death penalty is necessary. It sounds very cruel, but there are several criminals who do not show repentance about

their acts. I regard that death penalty is especially necessary with criminals who have committed offenses against children. For me that is unacceptable.

Daniela Cuellar