The Outsiders Motivation

There are many possible motives for committing a crime, ranging from the need to survive to committing the crime for the “fun” of it. One’s personality, environment, and other factors can motivate them to commit a crime. Depending on someone’s personality, the environment they’re in, or the situation that they’re in, someone can have a different amount of willingness to commit a crime

There are plenty of different situations that would urge someone to commit a crime more than other situations do. Situations in which one is struggling to survive or has been attacked by another are especially motivating when it comes to committing a crime. When someone is afraid for their life or the life of someone they care about, they make impulsive decisions

They don’t think about the consequences that their actions have, or even the true reality of what they’ve done. Their only concern in that moment is keeping themselves alive and safe or keeping whoever is in danger alive and safe. One in that situation would most likely rather harm another than let themselves or the person they are trying to protect be harmed. It would be more likely that one would kill another out of the struggle to survive or out of self defense than it would be for someone in a completely safe and non-life threatening situation to randomly attack and kill someone they’re having a conversation with. Although The Outsiders isn’t a mystery book, it has a great example of a character in this kind of situation. There is a part of the book where two major characters, Johnny and Ponyboy, are being attacked by a group of Socs, the rich kids of the West Side. One of the Socs ends up attempting to

For the aspect of one’s personality affecting this, things that one believes and lives by are more important than their actual personality traits when it comes to likeliness to commit a crime. Of course, personality traits might still be able to affect this, but it typically doesn’t have a major effect, as anyone has the capability to attempt to commit a crime. If someone goes by the statement “an eye for an eye”, they are far more likely to commit a crime out of vengeance and not think too much of it than a person who believes “two wrongs don’t make a right”. The person in the second situation wouldn’t believe that it is right to commit a crime out of vengeance because nothing good will come out of it, whereas the person in the first situation would probably believe that it is okay and actually just to get back at the one who had wronged them. The two people would be at different levels of willingness to commit a crime against someone who has done something wrong to them because of something that they believe. As humans, our beliefs shape who we are, and they affect our actions and how we think. So, in the same situation, two people who believe and live by different things would have different reactions and different actions. One’s mental state can affect the way they view things in a moment, and can affect the way they perceive they’re near future actions. If someone