Manipulating the Moments that Turn Us Into Criminals | Tom Gash | TEDxAthens

What makes a criminal? In this data-driven talk, Crime Science Expert Tom Gash explains the details that turn someone a criminal and suggests ways to prevent it.
Tom Gash is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London’s Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science. He advises governments on crime policy and public administration internationally and is a regular contributor to debates on public policy and current affairs, writing for the Independent, Guardian and Financial Times, and speaking on television and radio.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@cev12]

This makes perfect sense. I knew a thief, and this explains him perfectly. That instead of being a born criminal, he was shaped by the forces, like judgment, the justice system, and company, around him. And each turn moved him further onto that path. Which is in great contrast to the psychological disorders that were supposed to explain his behavior, and which I struggled to apply to him, but never fit. (Should have dismissed those long ago, and stuck with my own understanding...)

[@Hey-jw3dm]

so we really do affect each other.

[@davidthomascrawley5027]

Great speech Tom hope you are well!

[@hamzaabaid]

Helped me today after 6 years. Thanks ❤

[@Serbian-Templar]

And germanys justice system is taking full control on these aspects so they prevent people from becoming criminals and guide their way back onto the road and help them succeed in life instead of greedy and corrupt people and politicians and police preventing him from sucseeding in life forcing him to eventually take the dark side and end up eventually brutally gunned down or forever in jail,all of this can be prevented with a drop of love ❤️

[@whatisagoodusername1772]

Its only a "crime"if the local government authorities see the action as breaking a local law...example in North Korea you can only have 1 of 10 different hairstyles, now if you have color in hair that's a crime....but not in America, so it just depends where you are because people here in America dye their hair all the time and its not a crime or is it? 😭😭😭

[@delroywashington3185]

Tom Gash , he is thinking out the box , prison never prevents crime , long prison sentences dont either , they are just longer and more boring , me I was sick of the boredom and wanking ! I needed a different avenue to change , help or a different approach, id been in care from 4 yrs old 14 approve school then prison from 15 till I was 33 , never been in jail again now im 53 20yrs clear ,

[@riack97]

Congrats on staying on the outside my friend.

[@ogeo.8966]

This is a wonderful talk.

[@Paul-v8v4j]

"Why is it that the USA has 4% of the world's population but also 85% of the world's serial killers? D. H. Lawrence once remarked that the “essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer”-and except for “stoic,” this description is as accurate in 2007 as it was more than 80 years ago when Lawrence's brilliantly unorthodox Studies in Classic American Literature was published.

[@shannonmcstormy5021]

I'm sure, no one who watched the above video would be surprised that "self-check-out" initiatives have resulted in an explosion of people trying to steal. Whether walking out without scanning one or more items, moving tags from a less expensive product to a more expensive one, and other schemes. The thought has occurred to me and I have never stolen anything. To be clear, I have certainly broken laws such as when I was a teenager and would speed on my motorcycle. I remember thinking, its just so easy to go so fast on a motorcycle, so temping to rocket off down the road as soon as the light turned green.....proving the above point.

[@Outlander69]

Criminals are people that have lost hope of laws and morals. Believing that their success is impossible

[@ngle4246]

Did you not watch the video, or are you just that dull?

[@TheCatzFranzNeko]

I liked the talk, but something was wrong with the Mic. Too much echo, too much breathing into the mic.

[@mukeshcuster]

it was making my eye twitch within a minute

[@WasabiWei]

Too close to his face, I think.

[@dinsel9691]

That "kiss" sound he makes at the end of each speech is SO IRRITATING

[@whatisagoodusername1772]

Wish I could've found this sooner

[@davidmartinez7866]

Now how would that look on KZbin?🤥

[@ekhlasskhaledabuasabeh3495]

الحمد لله على نعمة الاسلام !

[@davidmartinez7866]

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[@smartypizza4723]

6:00 / 10:00

[@BlesswinJefferson]

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[@BlesswinJefferson]

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