Research in the early twentieth century identified criminal behavior as a result of social deprivation and identified the government as having the responsibility to remedy the social ills that caused an individual to commit criminal acts.
This contrasts contemporary research that identifies criminal behavior to be more individually interpreted and a result of the void between expectations and achievement.
This evolving research moved the theory of criminal behavior away from examining only the deeply, psychologically disturbed to the need to examine the frustration of the "normal" criminal.
Task Description: From the perspective of victims of crime, what do you think is the impact of categorizing criminal behavior and evaluating criminal behavior in terms of social frustration causing the criminal behavior?