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But what is not clear is the causality. Do criminals seek out safe regions to commit their crimes, or are certain areas inherently destined to house criminal activity? Social control needs individuals acting on their own free will in order to complete the circle of logic in this argument. Both sides are needed to make a coherent and rational understanding of the subject.
Social control theory is useful in explaining criminal theory only up to the point that free will of the individual is absent. The ability that one has to act on his or her own accord is inversely proportional to the amount of control that society has on that individual. This trade off or relationship is the basis on which social control theory can be accepted as causing criminal behavior. For some individuals that have limited imagination and free will, society definitely has the ability to override that person's cognitive ability...
For others, more confident in their ability to make sane and rationale decisions, criminal or not, society does not influence as much. Rather, society is influenced by these individual's behavior causing a feedback loop that never ends. Criminal behavior must be understood in this bipolar way for social control theory to have any impact or relevance in this discussion.
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