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A Balanced Paradigm of Crime Control: Programmatic and Methodological Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Yuval Wolf
Yuval Wolf*
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Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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Bryan Vila's general paradigm for understanding criminal behavior focuses on the role of developmental factors in determining motivation for crime (1994:338). In his recent proposal in PLS, Vila states that criminality is “a predisposition that disproportionately favors criminal behavior” (1997:4). He suggests, further, that

there always are some people who are motivated to use force, fraud, or stealth to obtain resources: either to make the best out of a bad situation, or to take advantage of a good situation. That is, some individuals have competitive advantages over others within a particular niche….(1997:8)

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Continuing Dialogue: Crime Control
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , September 1997, pp. 313 - 314
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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