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Classical Criminology and Human Nature

influence of ideological exist in many aspects of attendant complexity will F
mysticism, superstition daily living. From as- not change dramatically, O

and anything purport- saultive threats, to hate regardless of the myriad R
ing to be of supernatural speech, to discrimination of pseudoscientific asser- G

interference as determin- and all manner of thiev- tions. E
istic factors. Yet, among ery, people choose their R
the pseudosciences, there communal disruptions. Mitigations to the contrary Y

are inclinations of some Humans misbehave, not of sure, swift and certain
schools of thought that objects or things. Funda- actions, will continue to D

come very close to the mentally, rationality in circumvent every effort to E
edge of such unsubstanti- choosing behavioral ac- control or otherwise inter- C
ated “magical thinking”. tions is based upon psy- dict maladaptive choices. E

By their insistence upon chodynamic complexity In post-modern American P
that which is not well not easily answered or society, erroneous beliefs T

established by scientific quantified in precise and characterized by admoni- I
validation, claiming posi- definitive ways. tions of politicians, pun- O
tions of science, where dits and other self-serving N

scientific provability is un- In spite of contemporary interests, in emotional
tenable, commits damage illusions, reinforced by reactivity to heinous acts, L

to reason and rationality. magical thinking as hope represent futile energies at I
springs eternal, the real- the expense of those vic- E
Criminality comes from ization is that there will timized. S

within the individual and always be “anti-social” Recently, in the sensation-
everyone has the capacity people who will do “evil alized reporting of various

to commit criminal acts. things” to others. As such, murderous incidents, calls
It could be argued, de- in order to salvage the for more laws, increased
pending on a definition of viability of public safety, “mental health” expendi-

“criminality”, that every- order maintenance, and tures, excessive labeling
one at one time or another social ascendancy, the by way of questionable

has committed some type classical or rational per- “diagnoses”, and a range
of criminal behavior. To spective on the criminal of sectarian ideologies that
think that through, and behavior must expand in over-ride rational applica-

consider the myriad so- more realistic, rational and tions, hasten the demise
cial rules, regulations, methodical progressions. of the human species. In

ordinances, statutes, and Criminality, as an aspect the wake of terroristic
so on, many possibilities of human nature, with its incidents, emotion driven

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