Anomie theory This can be defined as the feelings of lack of social norms and values and it can also be said to be the situations where cultural norms breakdown due to drastic changes. According to Wright & Decker (1996), book criminals have a motive why they decide to steal. Therefore the writer tries to find out the state of mind of the criminals before they decide to commit an offence. According to his findings, almost nine out of ten of the offenders tend to commit the crime due to the urgent desire for money. These criminals try to find out how they will quickly acquire money and in the easiest way. These criminals as stated in the book have an urgent need for money and since they don’t have they decide to steal. The offenders were not driven by the desire for money as such since they didn’t accumulate it as capital for a long term goal rather they needed the money to solve an immediate problem which they were faced with. The criminal’s reason to commit burglary was to meet their day to day expenses such as food, shelter and clothing. These criminals would only commit the crime once they have exhausted their previous amount which they had acquired in the similar way. The criminals state that once they have acquired the money they were cool with that therefore they had no reason of getting high and thereafter committing the offence. But in some cases they committed the crime out of greed and the desire to make more. They were addicted to it and like the case of a cigarette where once the user smokes the first puff he always has a desire to smoke more of it and so are the burglars. Actually what was common with the criminals is that they didn’t even save a penny of what they got, they actually spent it on luxuries, parties and they were trying to maintain their sudden high profile life which was mainly associated with drug use. Most of their offence was mainly committed by the criminals when they were intoxicated and since some of the drugs were expensive they therefore had no choice but to commit burglary. Some of the drugs they took include cocaine which made them to have an urge of taking more of it and in turn they ended up being addicts. According to Lemert as he states in the book he says that these criminals have a behavior that is self enclosed in that they have an internal urge which calls for more even if it involves breaking the law. The writer states that these criminals never think of what they are doing as it is not a reasoned process. In other words there is a natural flow of events which tend to come from nowhere and it is motivated by the use if drugs. The writer states that their aim is not to be always high but its how they will get high. These criminals have a drug problem as in they have got no control of them since they have already formed a habit and this is what compels them to committing residential burglary Therefore according to our study, these criminals don’t have any convectional goals since the money they acquire is not saved but they use it for partying and taking drugs. According to the writer, these criminals are desperate in sustaining their lives so the only way they do that is by indulging themselves into stealing. These crimin