My more realistic aim is to investigate into the question; 'Are criminals born or made?'

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   It would be wrong of me to say that my aim was do actually find out the exact answer as to wheather criminals are born criminals or made criminals because there is no straight answer.

 My more realistic aim is to investigate into the question; 'Are criminals born or made?'

 I chose to investigate this subject because of a number of reasons. The first being that personally I am very interested to find out more about the inside minds of criminals. Secondly I think that it is important for more and more people to try and understand criminals and their way of thinking.

 Society could and should never learn to accept harderned criminals but maybe by understanding them, and why the do what they do, will help them make a more fair judgement on them.

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  By asking whether criminals are born or made, I mean nature or nurture. Has societyy moulded them into a psycopathic serial killer or were they simply just born with the 'evil' gene in their DNA? Of course there are different levels of the criminal. From those who exceed 70 mph on the motorway to those who shoplift to those who mass murder, the term 'criminal' can be used from one extreme to the other. Obviously most people who get caught for speeding are not thought of as criminals by society, nor are they likely to have been born evil ...

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