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Criminal behaviour Psychologists have done different studies to see why people commit crimes. Some have said that it is because a person is born a criminal whilst others argue that a person is influenced by society. Those who say that a person who is influenced by society might do it because they live in a poor area or they are brought up to think it is normal. Or they might have a role model who commits crimes. Those who say that a person is born a criminal say that the person might have excessive testosterone which makes them more aggressive and therefore commit more crimes. Milgrim (1963) studied the obedience of the participants. As his aim was to investigate the stages of obedience that would be shown when participants who taken part in this experiment which were told from authority figure to control the electric shock to another person. This...

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