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There are numerous reasons why people commit crime in our country today. In the film, Valentine Road, we see many examples such as social disorganization, subculture of violence, and many more. Reasons people commit crime range from mental disorders to physical problems such as bullying. Today, many people study the reason why people commit these types of crime. Cesare Lombroso is known as the “father of modern criminology”, and helped discover and analyze some of these theories. Many things influenced Brandon McInerney into murdering Larry King in 2008. Brandon was influenced by crime around him and lived in a family that was divorced and homeless for some time. Oxnard, California was a very quiet town, not known by many until one February morning in 2008 when a terrible, devastating crime occurred there
People commit crimes for varies amount of reason. Reasons on why people commit crime has been studied for many years. Brandon McInerey murdered Larry King on February 12, 2008 after Larry teased him in front of his fellow classmates one day at school. An annual tradition on Valentine’s Day at E. O. Green Middle School was to ask the person who you liked to be your valentine. Larry was an innocent fourteen-year old boy who liked Brandon. Larry approached Brandon in front of his friends and asked him to be his Valentine. Brandon was greatly embarrassed after Larry told him this. In the documentary we hear that Brandon told many people he was going to kill Larry for this. Many people didn’t take him serious because he was a very respectful human being, but they did not go what he went through during his childhood and what was currently going through when Larry told him he liked him. The next day at school Brandon ended up...

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...n conclusion, many factors played a role in Brandon committing the crime. Being influenced by violence at a very young age played a major role. Brandon experienced a subculture to violence at a very young age. Brandon’s mother gave him a bad influence by using drugs and lost her job which caused Brandon to be homeless for sometime, which later forced to live with his violent father. While living with his violent father he was exposed to deadly weapons. Larry embarrassing Brandon in front of his friends which caused Brandon to go crazy an made him think the only way to solve this was to kill Larry. Brandon was also influenced by reading graphic books about Nazis, which caused him to create numerous graphic drawings in his notebooks about hate. I believe that if Brandon’s parents had more of a positive influence on Brandon’s life this crime could have been prevented.

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