Socialization and Criminal Behavior

Socialization and Criminal Behavior

Iisha Whipple

ADJ 215

November 20, 2011

Tom Hopkins

Socialization and Criminal Behavior

Robert William Pickton also known as Willie was born in 1949 in a community of Vancouver, Port Coquitlam, in British Columbia. When their parents died in the 1970’s, they left him¸ his brother and sister the family farm. As the city expanded, Pickton with an effort to influence housing estates and shopping centers, he began to sell off parts of his land. Downtown Eastside, the slum of British Columbia, was one of the places that Pickton liked to visit that had managed to escape development.

Robert Pickton grew up in poverty which left his family always looking for money. His father, Leonard, was not involved in raising the children; his mother, Louise, although described as strange and tough did the best job she knew how in raising her three children. Her workaholic ways allowed her to run the family business and supervise the children as she expected them to also put in long hours on the farm. She made no exception of the children helping despite the school days. Stories have been told that when Robert wanted to escape from people that he would hide in the gutted bodies of large hogs.

His mother is believed to be the parent that may have influenced him to develop some of the social theory characteristics. For example, when his brother, Dave, was sixteen years old, he accidently hit a fourteen year old boy, Tim, with his father’s truck. When Dave, his brother, rushed home to explain to his mother happened, her reaction was to stop what she was doing and to go check out the situation. What was most shocking was the way she handled the situation. She pushed the boy in the slough after looking him over looked the boy over; he was still alive. She then returned home as nothing had happened. When the boy’s body was discovered, and autopsy report concluded that the car injury is not what killed him; he died from drowning.

Robert went...