(January 12, 2013 at 8:04 am)A Theist Wrote: ...it's seems as if they're making excuses for violent crime and violent criminals,...that we should be understanding and sympathetic to the poor sad violent criminal because, after all, it's not really his fault...he's just a product of his environment....
I knew you would not find any examples here. Whenever I see someone preface the socio-economic causes of crime with "it's not his fault", it is a rightwinger setting up a strawman every single time.
Poor social and economic situations do undoubtedly make it much more likely for people living in them to turn to criminal behavior. It does not excuse a single instance of criminal activity to state this fact.