When looking at to what extent crime is a product of free will you first have to understand what free will is and also what it stands for in society. The definition of free will in crime is within the areas of crime this generally looks and refers to the ability to choose a course of action that an individual will choose to do against another, one of which may be regarded as deviant although this supposition does not presume that all behaviour is necessarily freely and rationally chosen. It implies that individuals can recognize rules and laws and decide which to obey. To what extent free will exists therefore facilitates discussions surrounding the motives and predictability of human behaviour. Rather than certain acts being determined, either by forces within, or to external to the individual this allows crime to be viewed as a matter of personal autonomy. When studying the metaphysics will is the study of knowing and being it can quiet easily come under the same heading as free will and crime. As there is many heading that can come into the heading and be connected some of them are as follows classicism, rational choice theory, right realism, determinism, neo conservative criminology. All of them are theories which are related to explanations of why and when a person do things and is it really part of our free will or is it the environment that we live in that is dictating what we do in life. I have listed some quotes and information about each area which shows how each area fits into crime being a product of free will. Classicism theories state that free will gives the person the choice to choose with path they wish to follow and how they will live their lives within the laws in society. Also they have the choice of which laws and rules they break and follow. Also that if crime is to be stopped then the punishment should be harder than the gains in crime. So the extent that crime fits into this area is full on in the case of all criminals have a choice as...