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    Harry Burkhart's childhood in Chechnya, which falls into the Level 5 chaos category, explains his criminal behavior arising from social learning and situational factors. In such a society, “there is a maximum of moral and legal ambiguity and violence” (Boyanowsky 2013, p. 83). Much like his delinquent mother, it is very likely that he lacked superego development, which could have led to “the sublimation of the instinctual (criminal) drives 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, it lacks the moral development that led to a series of destructive arsons against the property of innocent people. In the case of Robert Pickton, the normal development of the superego was surely impaired by the abuse of his family members. Not only did he lack a real father figure, but his controlling mother made it a fact by horrifyingly covering up a crime scene involving the innocent 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 the first stage, where "the subject's reasoning is based on fear of punishment, as it might be in classical conditioning..." (Boyanowsky 2013, p.60), Pickton's slaughter of other animals after the death of his pet calf was never punished, which prevented him from developing morality; ultimately, Pickton commits a series of ruthless murders. Vincent Li's crime can be explained by the mental illness he suffered at the time of his murder. According to Boyanowsky (2013), paranoid schizophrenia is a "mental illness most often associated with aggressive behavior and violent crimes, but... middle of article...environmental crimes can lead to overwhelming disasters in which the humanity may not be able to restore. In order to resolve the ecocrime paradox, the first step should be to raise awareness about environmental crime. In a democratic system this may be achievable; however, in other authoritarian-style governments this can be very difficult unless powerful figures within their system are informed of the long-term consequences of environmental crimes and act accordingly. ” is also prominent because “[it’s] not as if there are no laws against pollution, it’s just that there is often no will to enforce them.” (Boyanowsky 2012, p.52). Reference Blackburn, R. 1993, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, John Wiley & Sons, Liverpool.