Infamous Person: Mike Vick
Paper must contain: History: Who is the person? Include a background including childhood. Give a brief description of crime/infamous activity. Why did this person become infamous? 2. Theory of Causation; Choose TWO criminological theories and explain this person's actions by these theories. (Credit given will weigh heavily on this section.) 3. Conclusion: What did you learn about criminal/human behavior from researching this person's history? Visuals: A picture of your infamous person is required. adon need to make some corrections on the instructions because the teacher just updated the instructions. Each paper must contain the following: 1. Theory of Causation; Choose TWO criminological theories discussed in our text and explain this person’s actions using these theories. This section needs to be developed to explain and defend the choice of theories. (Credit given will weigh heavily on this section.) 2.History: Who is the person? Include a brief background including childhood and family. Consider issues covered in the text. Is there a history of criminal or deviant behavior? 3. Crime, infamous behavior: Why did this person become infamous? Give a brief description of crime/infamous activity. 4. Conclusion: What did you learn about criminal/human behavior from researching this person’s history? The length of the paper is not as important as the information. If you cover the information in 2 pages, that's great. The most important aspect of your paper is to define your theories and defend their use with information used in your paper. Rememeber... We are explaining behavior, not excusing it. I hope this clears up some of the confusion.
Infamous Person: Mike Vick
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Infamous Person: Mike Vick
Criminological Theories
To offer a clear understanding of the case discussed herein, this paper discusses two theories of criminology. The first criminology theory discussed in this paper is Social Control. This illustrates the idea that people engage in criminal activities because of society’s weaknesses. In other words, Social Control theory disregards the relevance of internal forces in people that may influence their criminal behavior. The main reasoning behind this theory is to demonstrate the need of substantiating moral needs of a society, which act as grounds for overall social stability. In this respect, the society usually places restrains on social behavior of its members. Additionally, people will tend to look forward ways of realizing personal fulfillment from what seems enjoyable to them (Hirschi, & Gottfredson, 1990). Social associations with people that are crime-prone, characterizes Vick’s life. It in fact connects him to midnight basketball programs, the athlete’s life and activities does not exemplify any positivity outside the football pitch, his circle of close friends is dubious; a probable cause for his poor decision-making.
Another theory of criminology considered in this paper is Differential Association, a learning theory. According to this theory, social interaction are responsible for crime. Indeed, the absence of social organization can hardly be regarded as a source of crime as much as a person’s commonplace associations with criminal behavior patterns. It is without doubt exceedingly acceptable that some community settings encourage deviant social behavior and practices, especially in the developed world. In the case of Mike Vick, this explains his apparent arrogance as he associated with people around him. Indeed, one cannot decline to note that the athlete was exhibiting signs of inability to handle stardom, as would be expected of any mature person. More so, Vick himself referred to Newport News as "Bad Newz" but kept his associations there afloat (Hirschi, & Gottfredson, 1990).