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Originally Posted by tore
That's a horrible name for that article because it suggests the names are causative.
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Back when I was young (
) I did a study on something a little similar to this in sociology and what we found was that it wasn't the names that specifically led to bad behaviour. You had to look at class (touchy subject, I know, but I've started now). If you look at things broadly, generally speaking crime is commited mostly by people of a 'lower class'. I know there are exceptions to every rule, but as I said, this is generally speaking. What we found when we studied this was that a different class of people call their children a different class of name (again, exceptions to a rule, broadly speaking). So, in theory, Darren, Charmaine, Wayne, Liam and Chantelle from a 'low class' background' are more likely to come into contact with trouble/crime than Daniel, Matthew, Gemma (
), James, Samuel and Alexandra from a 'middle class' background.
Sorry if I've included someones name and offended them - this was just a rule of thumb and they're not always concrete!
But the point was that I don't think it's the name as such that will lead to bad behaviour. It's just in certain groups (like criminals!) some names are more common than others.