Sometimes I take time to think of why people do what they do. Why does @johntez addi gaza msafi rob people at street corners?
So, I came across this theory that is rather interesting and thought-provoking. According to the theory, people commit crime because society places a burden of performance (success goals) on them,but they lack any legitimate means of achieving those goals.
To quote "Strain Theory argues that crime occurs when there aren’t enough legitimate opportunities for people to achieve the normal success goals ".
@johntez addi gaza msafi a class 7 dropout is expected by society to own that 50 million townhouse in Lavington, a Range Rover SV Autobiography, and his three nigglets should study at some international school as a bare minimum. He is not an athlete and doesn’t possess any other highly marketable skills.
If such a character gets an opportunity to loot, you can expect with certainty that he will bleed those coffers dry, like everyone else. I’m not sanctioning his “career”, but I understand where he is coming from.
Well, that’s very similar to Karl Marx’s Conflict Theory - Society is in shambles because of the constant conflict that emerges when people are fighting over limited resources. There is like a whole train of crime theories and each makes sense to an extent.
Wow, that does make a lot of sense. It even does explain, at least to some extent, why some people vend certain private wares illegally. The said wares could be anything from kunyis marketed to old men for a Pilsner or Whitekap, to gigolo deek for sex-starved retired hags. Merton’s Strain Theory of Deviance… hhhmmm!
People want to own and control others and having money is a means to achieve that, in short we crave to be god. The original sin is still with us, the reason you find billionaires stealing, killing and raping. This kind of thoughts describe it ‘I will show them they need me, or I am better than them or they have to do as I say or I can steal it despite the security they have put’ . Something we do we they are prohibited and the feeling that you can do it and walk away feeds our rebelliousness
This concept was very well articulated in The Wire. You can legalize drugs to save the junkies, but the dealers with zero white collar skills will have to find something else illegal to do to climb the social ladder and achieve their dreams
Psychologists will tell you some people are born criminals; there are physical traits. Put in the same situation of deprivation some people will resort to crime others won’t, why?
Whip that deviant!