How Does Cresco Influence Criminal Behavior

In 1992, Jonathan Cresco was born to Evelyn Figueroa and Peter Cresco at the Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York. He was the youngest of three siblings, unwanted by a mother who smoked crack during pregnancy and a father with an extended criminal background of drug dealing and theft charges. He was taken into custody by child protective services days after birth and placed in the home of his father’s paternal grandmother, an elderly woman living off her late husband’s social security checks in downtown Brooklyn. His older siblings, however, were being raised by his mother’s maternal brother, a member of the port authority police department in New York and ten-year veteran in the water-down suburbs of Queens.

During the 1980s and 1990s, at the height of the crack epidemic, the term “crack baby” was used to describe a child born to prenatal cocaine exposure and have been predicted to grow up uneducated, poverty-stricken and prone to criminal behavior. As projected, Cresco grew up to become deviant, aggressive, and lack companionship for others and respect for authority. By the age of 16, Cresco was charged as a minor for several violent offenses including assault with a deadly weapon and gang affiliated activates. At the age of 22, he led a young man down an alley way just north of the Brooklyn Bridge and stabbed

Free will is an expression used to describe a person perfectly capable of making his or her own decisions without the influences of antecedent conditions (notes, free will). In other words, Cresco did not have to lead the young man into the alley way and he did not have to stab him repeatedly because it was in his complete control if he did or did not. He acted freely. Many people believe in free will because not to believe in free will questions the very essence of the human being—questions whether a person as a self even