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A weakness of Kohlberg's model?

Author: (Pippa) Pippa Holloway



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-Doesn't account for some important individual dfferences -Those committing crimes for finanical gain more likely to be at the pre-conventional level. Associated with crimes where they think they can get awway with it -Impulsive crimes like assualt tend to not have reasoning at all. Langdon suggests intelligence is a better predictor for crime than moral reasoning. Often people with low intelligence are much more likely to commit crimes -Question the validity of the stage model and wider generlisability as well as this, the stage model is reductionist


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