Professional criminal

Professional Criminal
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Institution

Professional Criminal.
A professional criminal is an individual who regularly engages in crime. This felon employs the use of sophisticated methods to execute their heists. Crime eventually becomes their source of income, and they later to form associations with other criminals. The positivist theory implies that a solution to crime can be found by the application of various scientific methods to determine the illness of the individual and consequently treat them (Hagan, 2017). Positivists believe that criminal behavior does not emerge from free will rather biological and social elements.
According to the positivity theory, lawbreakers are born as such meaning that a criminal does not choose to do what he does. Instead, it is inbred in them. They possess certain biological, psychological or social features that push them towards a life of crime. Felons often tend towards animalistic behavior like violence. Hagan (2017) observed that most criminals have eye problems, big jaw sets, and prominent lines on their palms. Lawbreakers are shorter and likely of lower intellect. Offenders are observed to possess excessive adrenaline or testosterone predisposing them to antagonism and destructiveness.
Psychological positivism suggests that experienced offenders could be as a result of a mental disorder or parental negligence. The disorders tend to upset the personality balance of the deviant resulting in traits like a weak moral sense. Absentee guardians when they were growing up could also contribute to one pursuing a life of crime because they might not have been adequately cared for or trained (Hagan, 2017).

A person often exposed to dominant behavior and invasion of space is also more likely to end up a criminal.
Conclusively, a professional offender might not choose to pursue this line of work, but instead, it might be ingrained in them from an early age. It is, therefore, necessary to develop methods of rehabilitating such a person instead of imprisoning them.

Reference
Hagan, F. E. (2017). Introduction to Criminology: Theories, methods, and criminal behavior. Sage.