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Defiance Theory Toward African American Offenders

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I believe that the defiance theory is aimed towards African American offenders. Lawrence Sherman theory believes that the increase of future offending against the community is caused by proud, and shameless reaction (Regoli, 2017). According to the theory regarding African Americans development in society is that they experiment more racism and racial stereotype more than any other race and that they’re easy to commit crimes and have a greater delinquency involvement in any juvenile and criminal justice system. I personally think that this theory was wrongful studied regarding African Americans. A lot of African Americans do learn from their mistakes especially if they have a committed a crime and some choose to continue to go down the wrong

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