How does poverty play into the relationship between environmental toxins and criminal behavior?
How does poverty play into the relationship between environmental toxins and criminal behavior?
Sociology is the study of society, which is a rather large and complex entity. Sociologists have developed many theories like structural functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interaction to study society at different levels and focusing on different aspects.
In this question we are asked of the relation between poverty, environmental toxins, and criminal behavior. Speaking plainly there is no direction relationship between environmental toxins and criminal behavior as the question seems to suggest. In other words, we cannot say that those exposed to environmental toxins become criminals. But indeed there seems to be another relationship between criminal behavior and environmental toxins in that the poor seem more susceptible to both.
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