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Smiley is a man who was released back into the society on a parole. He was sent back to live in his neighborhood. Shinichi Suzuki, a famous Japanese violinist who invented Suzuki Method, got the right idea of Smiley’s situation when he said â€Å"Man is a child of his environment†. It means that Smiley is a product of his environment. His neighborhood is a no picnic. The neighborhood is a basically a graveyard of American dreams. Like everyone else in America, Smiley values individualism, achievement, money, and family unity highly. However he is in a hostile society where his rough background is rejected and regarded as a stigma. He does not have education or an escape from his neighborhood where people are under a great strain. The reason†¦show more content†¦Regina had problems after being set free like Smiley. Regina is a mother who was struggling with her addiction to meth and drinking. She was sent to the prison for stealing money. There are several possible criminal theories that may explain her criminal history. She started doing petty crimes and did some drugs at first but then she experienced no serious consequences of her actions. She felt so alive with drugs and stolen money made her rich. In other words, she continued to break laws because she experienced no deterrence for her actions. A theory called rational choice (Shelden, Brown, Miller Fritzler, 2008) became popular in 1970’s and 1980’s which said that people may sometimes make wrong choices because of illogical reasons (p. 71). People may not have insufficient information, resources, or bad moral values that make them think not rationally. Regina got her moral values from her friends who felt it is okay to do drugs to deal with the life. However this theory follows hedonistic calculus (p. 71) which means that Regina freely chose to do drugs because she wanted pleasure and avoid pain. 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