The phrase "a predisposition to commit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's tendency or inclination to engage in a particular behavior or action, often in a psychological or behavioral context.
Example: "The study revealed a predisposition to commit acts of aggression among certain individuals."
Alternatives: "an inclination to engage" or "a tendency to perpetrate".
Some have suggested that K&R offenders have a predisposition to commit such crimes (for specification of those see Marongiu and Clarke 1993) or that K&R is a product of a political struggle between the central government, guerrilla groups, and militias (Rubio 2004; Topel 2009).
By relying exclusively on whether the defendant had a predisposition to commit the crime, the court appeared to have finally resolved a lingering issue in its previous decisions on the subject.
The Sorrells court grounded the entrapment defense in what has since been called the "subjective" test, in which the prosecution must overcome it by showing the defendant had a predisposition to commit the crime in any event.
Prosecutions built on sting operations can raise philosophical and legal questions, particularly cases built in areas like bathrooms and bushes and involving potential illegal behavior, or what the law calls a defendant's "predisposition" to commit a crime.
More ominously, Alibaba is prototyping a new form of ubiquitous surveillance that deploys millions of cameras equipped with facial recognition within testbed cities and another Chinese company, Cloud Walk, is using facial recognition to track individuals' behaviors and assess their predisposition to commit a crime.
Although several genetic association studies have been undertaken in populations worldwide, progress has been slow since the predisposition to commit suicide does not follow a common Mendelian inheritance pattern.
And who can doubt that all humans have within us the potential – even the predisposition – to commit acts which are labelled "inhuman" but in fact are anything but?
Defendants invariably claim entrapment and almost always lose, because the law requires that they show no predisposition to commit the crime, even when induced by government agents.
And what if computers, just as they can predict an individual's susceptibility to a disease from other bits of information, can predict his predisposition to committing a crime?A new regulatory principle in the age of big data, then, might be that people's data cannot be used to discriminate against them on the basis of something that might or might not happen.
"Many western cultures have a predisposition to viewing acts of violence committed through particular forms of advanced technology," says Grayson. "They are seen as being more precise, humane and therefore civilised, particularly when applied against 'bad people'".
Nevertheless, for those with a predisposition to be hooked by cannabis, the pull of the drug is intense.
