SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY FOR DEVIANT CONDUCT AND PENITENTIARY CONDITIONS Criminologists, sociologists and psychologists have studied underlying causes of crime since a long time but there are still not universally agreed-upon reasons. Most criminal research show that guilty people have always a complicated psychology. Social factors and internal factors both determine a criminal's conduct, and this complicity makes us to question those factors and thus want to find out who is primarily responsible for people being behind …
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…in there. From that point of view, it should be accepted that society is primarily responsible for the conditions in prisons as well. WORKS CITED 1) Abbott, Jack Henry. "State Raised Convict" from In the Belly of the Beast. 2)Eitzen, T. and Timer, S.. Criminology. Reegan, New York, 1978 3) Felt, James W.. Making Sense of Your Freedom: Philosophy for the Perplexed. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY. 1994 4) http://members.lycos.co.uk/DawnMac/Criminals_born_or_made.html