Tina is hungry without any money. She tells herself that she must steal in order to eat that day, and that in this case stealing is ok. She then goes into a convenience store and steals some food without feeling any guilt. Tina’s justification is a type of:

neutralization

Explanation:

Before a crime is committed, a decision to committed such crime is made by the offender. neutralization a  concept in criminal decision making in which the offender counteract some values to justify the crime to be committed. In neutralization, the offenders tend to make a case for themselves by providing a reasonable argument to commit such a crime.

Tina feels that is okay to steal food from a convenience store and she did it without feeling guilty. Tina did not consider that she was committing a crime because she felt she had to eat, Tina neutralized the action. This illustration is termed neutralization.

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