Question

After reading current research on the causes of juvenile crime and noting that lack of opportunity, school failure, and parental neglect are often prominently mentioned, you have trouble reconciling what you read with what your personal experience. you think in particular of someone you went to high school with who, despite coming from a well-educated, wealthy family, being a star student and athlete, and having very attentive parents, carried out a series of burglaries and arsons. this illustrates the ____ fallacy.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: Individualistic fallacy

Individualistic fallacy refers to a false interpretation that we made on a certain individual because we associate a certain characteristic with negative or positive traits. Other example of individualistic fallacy would be automatically think that a criminal must be a coloured/minority person when you heard a news about burglary.