1. We all have a different circumstances and experiences in life.
There are things that some people are privileged enough to
experience it while others don’t. I think, the most common factors that made our behavior varies are; social status, biological factors, cultural background, and mental being. We all have came from different social status. Social status can be an urge for few individuals to commit crimes such as stealing, and engaging to illegal acts like selling drugs to provide for their daily living. These crimes they commit might be influenced by their social status. People who are most likely to take on such acts are those who encounter severe poverty. Next, biological factors or the genetic composition of a person. There might be an instance that a person take upon his behavior from his biological parents. We all came from different family which explains that we also have dissimilar biological components. Meanwhile, cultural background of a person. We have various beliefs and behavior that we acquired from our respective cultures. There are some people who believe that it’s all fine to use violence. Lastly, mental being of a person. Some people are not just in their proper mental condition. They might have experienced crisis in their mentality which caused them to not being able to think straight and right. Some individuals have criminal behavior while others don’t have because aside from we have different lifestyle as to how we want our lives to become, we have perspective and approaches in life as well which are greatly influenced by the factors mentioned above.
2. I think that Sigmund Freud teachings about the
Psychoanalytic Theory is based on factual and practical basis. Childhood experiences have a huge contribution in shaping one’s adult personality. These experiences have influenced our approaches and perspective in life as an adult. For an instance, if as a child you are surrounded by the people who tend to commit ill behaviors, there are higher tendencies that you could adapt those because it will now serve as your life standard and will later on be normalized. However, there are also situations where the past or childhood experiences of an individual will serve as his motivation to be better in his adult life. For example, if as child he was abused by his drunkard father instead of doing the same thing, he could make it as a motivation to not become like his father.
3. There are three (3) levels of personality structure. These are
ID, Ego, and Superego. ID are the first level of personality in which it only aims to satisfy the pleasure in you as an individual. It is aggressive in nature that would usually make you do things without your full conscious. On the other hand, ego is the conscious personality. It thinks more based on objectives. Its main task is to balance the demands of ID and superego. Lastly, superego which is the moral part of the personality. It makes you think more rational and do ethical behavior according to your conscience. These three structures of personality have something to do to the criminal behavior of a person. For an instance, if ID dominates it has higher tendency that crimes will be committed. But if the ego will do its task properly by not meeting the wants of the ID, superego will turn over. In this case, criminal behavior can be prevented for the reason that superego automatically knows what to do in different situations which is to do things rightfully.