Billy N. Evitable is a 18-year-old young man who grew up lis…
Billy N. Evitable is a 18-year-old young man who grew up listening, watching and experiencing violence through music, television and abusive and alcoholic parents. Billy recently killed a neighbor’s child while re-enacting a scene from a violent movie that he had watched the night before. His friends watched and egged him on as he began to perpetrate the act. Assume that you were Billy’s attorney. An expert witness from which of the following theoretical perspectives would probably be most prepared to identify the violent movie as a mitigating (explanatory) factor to account for his criminal act?
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