Question

The depth of your responses and a desire to understand what truly motivates people to commit crimes is critical to changing people. Causation is a worthy topic to create long term behavior change.

Answer 1

People make mistakes and when they take it to the next level by doing it with the intention of hurting someone or cause loss to someone, it becomes a crime. People learn this by observing other people commit crimes, they themselves do it out of emotional outburst and sometimes to retaliate someone. Although people know that there is a punishment for whatever deviant behaviors they involve in, people still do it.
One of the most important thing that as a counselor one should tell people is that it's not the act of going to prison but it's the aftermath that should be thought over such as losing the respect, difficulty finding a job, losing one's loved ones etc. Causation which explains the concept of cause and effect, will definitely deter people from engaging in crime.