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I don't think that these impulsive people do a single wrong thing that lands their in jail. Rather, they are a constant nuisance to everybody around them, and

I don't think that these impulsive people do a single wrong thing that lands their in jail. Rather, they are a constant nuisance to everybody around them, and eventually it gets them in trouble. What they get locked up for is probably not their first transgression. They might not be criminals but they actively decrease quality of life for everybody involved. The kind of behavior people tend to leave with high school, and they should have left ever sooner. I wonder if therapy will help them avoiding behaving like a bad apple, not just avoid getting caught with their eventual out-of-bounds act.

frogpelt 10y ago
I don't think you fully understand what growing up in a terrible neighborhood entails. They aren't so much "a constant nuisance to everybody around them" as they are acting like many who are around them. When you grow up in the hood and your father is gone (dead, in jail, never in the picture) and your mother is on crack and all of your friends and siblings are in gangs and/or on drugs and/or selling drugs, changing your destiny is a difficult proposition.