Essay About Violent Behaviour And Human Destructiveness

Are Criminals Born or Made?Psychologists have researched this question for many years, whether or not criminals are born or made, but to date they have not come to a conclusive answer. Some psychologists believe in the nature approach (born criminals) and others believe in the nurture approach (made criminals), (Newburn, 2007).

Many experts believe that violence is an inborn trait that people are naturally violent and aggressive, but there are those who do not support this belief. Psychologist, Erich Fromm believes that ‘human destructiveness is not part of human nature and that it is not common to people’ (Erich Fromm). I take a similar view and would say that violent behaviour in people can be identified by a person’s genetics, together with their circumstances and environment. Religious leaders, scientists and philosophers have been trying to find out if people are born with violent, aggressive tendencies. An eighteenth century philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau tried to demonstrate that humans are naturally good until they are warped by society, a society that encourages inequality and competiveness. He believed that society was responsible for the fact that human beings hurt one another (Jean Jacques Rousseau). This ideology I agree with because there are many situations in life where our environment and society act as the driving force in our behaviour. Take for example someone who has lost their job and is in desperate need of money to feed themself and their family, there are some people who will resort to various types of criminal activity in order to meet their needs. On the other hand we will have some people who will not stray from the law, no matter what their circumstance. This type of person would have learned to control their response to this kind of situation. This control within someone could have been a result of their upbringing, life experiences, social class and maybe their general attitude towards life. This brings to light whether or not criminals are born or made.

Erich Fromm says that ‘some people prefer to believe that aggression is all instinctive because then they don’t have to consider how social problems have contributed to a rise in violence’. This is a very true statement because if violent behaviour and aggressive behaviour was purely instinctive then we would all probably react in pretty much the same way to certain situations, and we clearly do not. This brings us to the argument to whether criminal behaviour is fuelled by our social problems and society. In society people have been always categorised according to their wealth, or in accordance to their lifestyle and income. In the past this was seen as categorising them into classes; the upper class, the middle class and the working class. Today people in the lower socio-economic groups would be considered to be working class, which I would say makes up three-quarters of our society. The origin of the people in this group, generally have

n a lot going on. For example, we are all the poorer in this group of people. One of our main differences as a society is that, for our society to work that people all have to work hard.

4] You are right that there is at least a little variation among different groups and they have different forms

There is an interesting study (Köhler et al. 2007). From the 1990s to the present it seems that there has been a strong tendency towards increasing the prevalence of violence against women in our society; even in countries such as Australia where a considerable number of police shootings have been reported, in most cases women were less likely to kill or injure police officers. This appears to be the opposite of what is been reported in a variety of European countries where a significant rise in the murder rate occurred. In Japan, one of the more interesting areas is homicide; the highest proportions of Japanese males have had a high rate of murder in recent decades, according to data from the National Investigation Agency, but for the period 1983-1995 there was a very small rise in the rate of murders (see also Pérez et al., 1993 for some of the more shocking patterns: 1,3-5, 7). It is also clear that homicides increased almost 10%, from 437 to 501 per thousand in 1983-1995, and that as the homicide rate of men rose from 1,879 to 5,822 per thousand and the proportion rose from 1,083 to 8,527 per thousand, the total homicide rate fell from 5,039 in 1985-1989.

5] You seem to be saying that this “evolving” behavior isn’t seen in the same way that people in other societies see it, but do you think that these changes are linked to the increasing level of violence that we see in Japan

Yes, as you say, there is an interesting increase in violence in the last 10 years in Japan, but as you pointed out I cannot make an unimportant point – violence is something that I’m trying to emphasise in public. It has been discussed many times before in Japanese textbooks, but I want to emphasise that I am not talking about what in the past might be called a positive development, when that was not a common belief. I’m talking about something that has happened in many different countries and societies, and there have been many different reasons why some people would want to do it in Japan: to be better, or because that is where they want to be.

There have been a variety of issues raised in Japan in this discussion, as well as things I mentioned before. What I mean by this is that there are numerous reasons people would want to do this – in several regions, for example many other countries, countries with increasing levels of poverty, etc. – and that is not a political factor. You can point out this and argue that there are some differences in political views in Japan, but they are not real issues. I am saying that people often refer to political movements and social issues as one issue and think they know about that, but when someone from different backgrounds raises another issue it is something they do not see.

6] It is very difficult at the moment for me to prove it

It has been my experience that political figures such as the emperor and prime minister tend to tend to overestimate the role of the state at the end of their sentences. When we are talking about how the Japanese people are, we go into this phase when we are talking about the future of the whole country. The idea that Japan should be considered the center of the world’s economy, or at least perhaps centrality or a role in the world’s economy,