Essay-Exam on The Boy Who Loved Transit: How the System Failed an Obsession by Jeff Tietz

After reading the report on Darius McCollum and having taken both a legal and psychological context into consideration, I feel that Darius had full knowledge of what he was doing and was surely capable of controlling his actions. Hence, there should be some degree of punishment for him. A determining factor that needs to be made known here is whether Darius' mental state was impaired to such an extent that he failed to understand the moral and the criminal element of his crimes. …