From Arson to Murder: The Study on Charles Chitat Ng

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220704.069How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Charles Chitat Ng; Serial killer; Childhood Mistreatment; Personality disorder; Social learning theory

Abstract

Serial killers Charles Ng and Leonard Lake teamed up in the early to mid-80s committed some of the most heinous murders imaginable, severely torturing their victims before putting them out of their misery. In the 1980s, Charles Ng and Leonard Lake rented a lonely property and created a bunker where they exploited and imprisoned women for sex, torture, and murder. They assassinated the spouses and children of the female victims as well. Police linked Ng to 12 deaths when the spree stopped, but they feared the real number was closer to 25. Ng was a troubled boy since adolescence, he was fired multiple times for behaviors like fighting and stealing, and arson. But what lead Ng from these crimes to aggravated assaults even murders? To further study the cause of his behavior, this paper uses related theories to study Charles Chitat Ng from multiple angles. This essay uses theories like social learning theory to analyze the cause of Ng’s criminal behaviors from multiple dimensions like childhood mistreatment and Ng’s personality disorder.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ziran Zhou
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - From Arson to Murder: The Study on Charles Chitat Ng
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 370
EP  - 375
SN  - 2352-5398
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