Criminal behaviour or crime must first be defined in order to set precincts in which the debate of free will or determinism applies. The Macquarie Dictionary defines `crime' as "an act committed or an omission of duty, injurious to the public welfare, for which punishment is prescribed by law, imposed in a judicial proceeding usually brought in the name of the state; serious violation of human law." Criminal behaviour has ultimately been a universal concern throughout history, where theories from fields such as sociology, psychology, law, politics, history and economics have all endeavoured to explain crime (Goldsmith, Israel & Daly 2003: 63). Individual explanations of crime and social explanations of crime are the two general categories in which theories of crime fall. Debates amongst psychologists are focused essentially on the fundamental nature of human...