The influence of economic and socio-cultural factors on criminality

Abstract

Although there are a number of guidelines that differently explain the causes of criminality (biological, psychological, social), however contemporary criminology gives preference to social determinism. Its essence is reduced to the fact that all interactions in society between people appear under different forms of relationships, which influence their direct involvement in the development of those relations. For these reasons, to identify the most widespread causes of criminality, it is necessary to pay special attention to the interaction of social environment with the individual, through the identification of the multitude of existing complex relationships. The most frequent, criminal phenomenon is influenced by economic and socio-cultural relationships (factors), in other words, a series of negative effects generated by the contradictory nature of these relationships: unemployment, economic crises, low level of living, social inequity, family and school abandonment, media violence, alcoholism, drug addiction etc.