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Neurological Factors Related to Criminal Discussion Chapter
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Topic:Traumatic Brain Injury
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These problems can stem from genetic factors, but can also come about with other events of abuse, neglect, and violence in young children. Diseases, such as ADHD, Autism, as well as others can also bring about these problems that cause low performance and the child needs special services to learn appropriate functioning. Boys with low neuropsychological performance and family adversity showed four times the aggression levels of boys with only one of the factors, accounting for 70.2% of all violence committed by the cohort of the study (Raine, 2002).
For example, a child with ADHD can be extremely hyper, depending on the degree of ADHD that causes problems with how the hyper activity is handled. It is easy for a parent who does not know how to handle the hyper child to become frustrated. If there are other environmental factors, such as alcohol and drugs, the problems can become worse with abuse, neglect, and violence. These factors can cause a child to medicate themselves, substance abuse, in order to function. The substance abuse and problems in the home enhances the ADHD problems and the child can turn to criminal activity.
On the other hand, if the child does not have the environmental factors of alcohol, drugs, or violence (come from a good home), they may not turn to criminal activity if the needs are met with medical services that teach them how to deal with the ADHD and proper educational services that enable them to learn better in educational settings. This means that the low neuropsychological performance does not by itself constitute criminal behavior. The combination of negative environmental factors with the neuropsychological performance can turn the individual to criminal behavior.
Bibliography
Brain injury rate high for young delinquents. (2008). Crime Times, 14(4).
Raine, a. (2002). Biosocial studies of antisocial and violent behavior in children and adults: A review. Journal…
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Brain injury rate high for young delinquents. (2008). Crime Times, 14(4).
Raine, a. (2002). Biosocial studies of antisocial and violent behavior in children and adults: A review. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30(4), 311-2-6.
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