How is the argument about whether predisposition or socialization has the greatest effect on police behavior similar to and different from the argument about whether nature or nurture is responsible for people developing criminal behaviors?

What will be an ideal response?


Students should identify that the main differences are that predisposition is only one form of what is encompassed in ?nature? and socialization is only part of what is included in ?nurture.? They should see similarities in the competing explanations for behavior, some from within the individual and others from the individual?s environment.

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