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However, innate characteristics combined with external social conditions at birth that are reinforced during the developmental process influence people to act in certain ways. For example, physical characteristic determines a person's behavior by studying patterns throughout the individual's life and connecting them to biology. A person born with a large body structure is likely to turn into a bully when young. This individual may not feel fear when committing crimes because he or she has the physical ability to intimidate others. Latent trait theory also explains that people are born with certain static characteristics that are likely to remain immutable throughout their lives. For example, a child who likes to take random objects without necessarily needing them and without permission can turn into a thief. Furthermore, a short-tempered child can become a violent person. Using a social perspective, people commit crimes due to strenuous events. The individual quickly forms a habit when he learns that the way to resolve the stressful event is to commit the offense again as represented in social learning