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What does criminogenic mean?

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  1. tending to produce crime or criminals
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Some advocates of the heavy drug enforcement argue that drug use is criminogenic.
That reflects their psychological neediness, rather than a criminogenic behavioural pattern.
Rather, the criminogenic and psychological variables that coalesce to produce the delinquent or delinquent group are also functions of larger societal processes.
Harristown House offered an option other than custody in cases where addiction had been identified as being the main criminogenic need.
In the model, crime policies are governed by an assumption of rational choice, and are designed to deter rational actors from choosing a criminogenic path.
The intensity of treatment was determined by sentence length, not the offenders' criminogenic needs.

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