It has been rightly said that no man is an island, people do not live only for their selves.

They need certain people or groups of people in a particular environment who understand and accept them for who they are. Sociology claims that these people play a vital role in ones development from early childhood up until their journey towards adulthood. It is for this reason that it is rightful to claim that different environmental and sociological factors could either make or break a person. Take for instance the rampant occurrence of crime and deviance among youngsters: there is the rising question of what factors affect them to either stay or cross the line of social norm and behaviors. According to the Websters dictionary, a person who is considered a deviate means one whose behavior does not conform to accepted social standards. On the other hand, a person who commits crime nonetheless means compelling to an act in violation of the law. Crime and deviance primarily traces their correspondence to the fact that they are both considered a desecration to social norms; only, crime has an added variety of having a law passed against it. In an article written by Robert Sampson and John Laub entitled, A Life-Course View of the Development of Crime, they posed the keyword developmental criminology which pertains to the paradigm undertaken by adults who commit crimes and deviates from social norms. Sampson took into consideration the different influences and events that might have occurred in the life of these people that nonetheless resulted to either their persistence or desistence of crime and/or deviance. Nagin, Faringttton& Moffitt (1995), shares the common perspective with Sampson and Laub; and thus proposed some interesting factors as to why some adults choose a lifecourse trajectory of crime and deviance. He enumerated that, factors such as delinquent,

criminal and imprudent behaviors; intelligence and attainment; relationship with family and friends; antisocial family and parenting factors could be the root for such path. Delinquent, criminal and imprudent behaviors pertain to ones early unrestrained sexual behaviors and early dependence on drugs and alcohol. Such behaviors trigger aggression among young people that may continue until they reach adulthood. On the other hand, intelligence and attainments may also contribute to ones path towards misconduct if they have considered their selves inferior among a certain group such as at school or at work. When the feeling of inferiority continues these people may feel frustrated; thus and when these people feel aggravated by such feeling they may become aggressive. According to Papalia and Olds (1990), though frustration does not always result to aggression, people who are experiencing frustration commonly due to insults, trauma, or punishment are more likely to be aggressive than a contented individual. Moreover, Papalia and Olds (1990), claim that there are instances when a child becomes more and more aggressive and hostile to other people because of some factors in his/her life. When this gets out of hand, this can be very dangerous. This is the starting point of ones path towards crime and/or deviance. This is why; family and social relationships tend to play the biggest and most important part in ones persistence or desistence of a path away from social norms. A childs home should be a learning place where values are inculcated and social norms are founded. It is a childs first and continuous learning environment by which he/she acquires his/her ideas, behaviors and manners being shared with other people. The manner by which a child interacts with other children can be traced down to the kind of discipline the child receives at home. A child who is being disciplined through yelling or hitting by a parent shows a clear manifestation of the same manner towards other people. A child who observes marital

disputes between his/her parents to the extent of physical assaults will most likely handle his own arguments in the same manner. More often than not, a child who experiences violence at home demonstrates the same kind of action and thus continues to do it until they reach adulthood. It has often been reiterated that, prevention is better than cure. That is why, it is a lot useful if at an early stage, manifestations of violence and deviance be prevented.

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