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Harry Burkhart’s childhood in Chechnya, which at fits in the category of Tier 5 Chaos, explains his criminal behavior stemming from social learning and situational factors. In such society, “maximum moral and legal ambiguity and violence exists” (Boyanowsky 2013, p.83). Along with his delinquent mother, it is very likely that he lacked superego development which may have lead into “Sublimating instinctual (criminal) impulses of the id…” (Boyanowsky 2013, p.47). According to Blackburn (1993), it is the concept of displacement where feelings such as anger find expression in unrelated objects; Thus, lacking in the moral development which have lead into destructive series of arson towards innocent people’s property.

In Robert Pickton’s case, normal superego development was surely impaired though the abuse from his family members. Not only did he lack a proper father-figure, his dominant mother made it a concrete fact thorough horrifying cover-up of a crime scene which involved guiltless murder of an innocent boy. In Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, it can be shown that Pickton’s development must have stopped at the preconventional level; in stage one, where “the subject’s rationale is based on fear of punishment as it might be in classical conditioning…” (Boyanowsky 2013, p.60), Pickton slaughtering of other animals after the death of his pet calf was never punished which barred him from developing the morality; ultimately, Pickton commits series of remorseless killings.

Vincent Li’s crime can be explained through the mental illness he possessed at the time of his murder. According to Boyanowsky (2013), paranoid schizophrenia is a “mental illness most prominently associated with aggressive behavior and violent crime but ...

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...nvironmental crimes can lead to overwhelming disasters in which mankind may not be able to restore. In order to resolve the Ecocrime paradox, first step should be heightening people’s awareness towards crime against the environment. In a democratic system, it may be feasible; however, in other authoritarian-type governments, it may be very difficult unless powerful figures within their system happens to be knowledgeable about long-term consequences of environmental crimes and acts upon them.

therefore eliminating any resistance against In our modern democratic society, this problem is also eminent as “[it’s] not as if there are no laws against pollution, it’s just that there often exists no will to enforce them.” (Boyanowsky 2012, p.52).

Referece

Blackburn, R. 1993, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, John Wiley & Sons, Liverpool.