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Reply to this student: The two different schools of thought offer such great background to help us, as students, decide our personal opinion on whether or not crime is caused because of choice or because of external forces. You are correct in your report of saying that crime is a choice solely when looking through the viewpoint of the classical school of thought. I also appreciated your report on how through the positivist school of thought that it seems clear that crime is not a choice but instead is ultimately part of genetics. Similar to your concluding thoughts, I also ultimately decided that there is in fact no one or the other but instead the comparison and pairing of both schools of thought is how we are best able to explain why crime occurs. I believe that crime is occurring because of many different factors that fall in both the classical school of thought and in the positivist school of thought. The idea that someone may have to commit theft because of where they grew up and lack of nutrition elsewhere is completely different than a teenage girl committing theft to rebel against the norms, yet both of these situations occur in crime consistently. I believe we have very similar opinions on this topic and I appreciate the evidence you used to back up your belief. Need Assignment Help?