Exploring the Factors Pushing Criminal Suspects to Commit Crime: The Case of Soddotown in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
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As third world, urbanization has not been accompanied by industrialization,
because unemployment born crimes are expanding in urban areas. Thus, this study
explores the Pushing Criminal suspects to commit Crime. The types of crimes most
dominantly practiced in the soddo town, pushing factors, as well as prevention methods
were included. According to the contextual definition and related literature explanation,
crime is a product of psychological mechanisms (instantiated in the brain) combined with
environmental input that activates them or inhibits their activation. In addition Crimes
such as robbery, assault, rape, and murder comprise a subset of human behavior.
Furthermore the problem impact on psychological, physical, psycho social aspects of the
society. In order to assess the life of participants, the researcher used qualitative research
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.under this research type, explanatory method has been utilized and the researcher
interviewed 20 informants, specifically 11 offenders and 9 police officers. The result has
shown that a number of pushing factors lead people to becoming a victim of crime. Based
on the finding of this study, the main pushing factors of offenders explained by key
informants are unemployment, peer pressure and substance addiction. Moreover, the
researcher concluded that crime waves, however, come and so and no one stay young and
adult forever. Therefore, involvement in crime appears to decrease consistently. Finally,
the researcher strongly recommended that government and academic institution
professionals should pay much interest about the problem in order to outline the root
cause of crime based on the nature of causes, and they should arrange the welfare
measures as it requires deserves
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