opportunity presents itself. A major reason that an ever growing proportion of the population appears to be findings criminal behavior an acceptable alternative to non criminal behavior is the continuing socialization of criminal deviancy. More and more people are coming to the view that behavior termed criminally deviant is not necessarily socially unacceptable.
Increasingly, attempts are being made to link criminal deviancy with increased drug use in society. Most certainly, drug use and criminal behavior frequently accompany one another. Criminal behavior existed prior to increasing drug use, however, and there is little reason to really expect criminal deviancy to disappear if the drug problem is suddenly controlled. Further, the high correlation between drug use and criminal behavior exists because white collar crime and corporate crime are all too often excluded from the definition of criminal behavior.
Violence in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. Violence is most typically an outgrowth of conflict. Conflict is simply a disagreement between two or more parties over some issue, objective, or behavior. A conflict, thus, is a dispute. Violence is an outgrowth of conflict when peaceful dispute mechanisms fail.
When family members, coworkers, friends, strangers, ethnic and racial groups, and even nations perceive that they are being denied something that they think that they should have (regardless of their justification for such a perception), the typical response is to identify the party responsible for such denial. When such identification is established, the essence of a conflict situation the issue and the parties has been defined. Conflict may be the result of real inequities among parties, or conflict may stem from cultural differences that shape perceptions.
Minority population groups in Los Angeles on the whole believe that society and the criminal justice system within society is ...