It is quite evident that brain imaging is key to understanding why an antisocial persons’ characteristics are the way they are. In studying how the brain works, and what functions predispose to certain behaviors perhaps steps can be taken when an adolescent or adult undergoes trauma. One of the important takeaways one must bare in mind while reading this paper is that though certain environments and scenarios may predispose one to being antisocial, it is not always guaranteed. It is simply that when observing violence juveniles and adults, time and time again they replicate data previously had, reinforcing the areas researchers feel are causal for such behavior. Nevertheless, there is much to be learned on all fronts, and a considerable amount …show more content…
“Environment changes early in development can influence gene expression”. This fact is crucial because ultimately, environmental aspects on juveniles of all ages can ultimately change the manner in which a gene interacts with and responds to neuronal structure. With this process in mind, conduct disposed kids have a higher temperament, and a negative environmental space is allowed around a child that that is not otherwise positive, the brains function can be altered, and in the end the child could end up as an antisocial teenager, and criminal …show more content…
If the culture of violence becomes normalized in the daily routine of adolescents, then it can only be expected that they externalize in a violent manner, because thats is what they are taught. Children of 10 years, when found to exhibit antisocial behavior in school, were found to be antisocial later in life as well, accounting to the fact that, “Behavior problems are often manifested early in life and continue, in more severe forms, through adolescence”. Environmental factors play a crucial role in predicting the level of asocial behavior in children and adults. Things such as poor family management and conflict, hyperactivity in teens 14-16, as well as academic stimulation and peer delinquency serve as one of the many cues help to determine such outcomes, and as reach continues on that front, it is likely that intervention programs will be enacted to keep the level of asocial young adults and rising adults
...s may never agree on a conclusive degree to which both nature and nurture play roles in human development, but over the years, more improved studies have shown that both are crucial aspects. With all the knowledge we are gaining from these studies, it would be quite limiting to believe that a criminal and his actions are the sole result of heredity. Even in people who do not commit crimes, genes themselves are affected by the prenatal environment. Undoubtedly, the fetus experiences changes in environment, forcing possible changes in heredity and reactionary response. We are likely to never find the answer to how much or how little either, nature or nurture, impacts our lives, but at least we can agree that they both do, in fact, have major roles. Our development is not the culmination of heredity alone, but of a tangled web of experiences and genetics entwined.
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A progressively predominant phenomenon is the formation of gangs that is crosscutting all ages and backgrounds. Gangs are always in an outgoing state of evolution and transformation, influenced by numerous factors; such as social exclusion, racism, bias, community disorganization, availability of drugs and weapons within the society. The previously mentioned factors contribute to developing a personality that focuses on the negative side of life. It is worth noted that the decisions people made in their life is strongly interlinked to their historical background. Consequently, it is important for children to have a stable relationship with their parents from birth to adolescences, since that period of time shapes their personality and impacts their life choices. In order to find a proper solution that may help reduce gang formation, it is essential to focus on the main problem behind developing a gang and the motives that foster the development of gangs. A solution that may help reduce gang violence is passing a law that forces all parents to meet a child psychologist before having children and provide them with incentives to recognize the seriousness of meeting a child psychologist. The logic behind is that it raises their awareness of the consequences of becoming parents and its associated responsibilities. Besides, it offers the parents with the relevant information about the dangers of psychological aggression, and maltreatment and it guides them on the potential means of dealing with children’s behaviour. This paper will shed the light on some of the arguments supporting the solution stated above.
In childhood, if one has abusive, manipulative, or irresponsible parents that neglect them at home, a part of their brain, which controls emotions, is damaged, and they become more prone to violence and aggression (White, Sadie. " Making a Monster: The Biological, Social, and Artistic Construction of a Serial Killer From Psychosis to Sondheim").
Finger, Marsh, K. Blair, Reid, Sims, Ng, Pine, and R. Blair wanted to know if youths who have conduct disorder or oppositional defiance disorder have abnormalities in their amygydala and orbitalfrontal cortex. The experimenters used an fMRI to check for abnormalities. Youths who have conduct disorder or oppositional defiance disorder tend to show more aggression and antisocial behavior. These youths also have a higher risk of being antisocial or even criminals in the future. Although psychopathic traits can be caught early, psychologists do not fully understand pathophysiology. In previous studies experimenters have found that subjects who have psychopathic traits also have issues with emotional learning. They found that the traits showed damage in the stimulus-reinforcement learning and in decision making using the passive avoidance task. According to previous studies the amygdala is where the stimulus-associations take place, which then the information is thought to be sent to the orbitalfrontal cortex through the ventral striatum. Then in the orbitalfrontal cortex processes the information and helps in the decision making.
(2015), the researchers conducted a case study in order to understand how the anatomy of the brain associates with aggressive behavior in children. These researchers wanted to understand the difference between normal human behavior and psychopathology when looking at neuroanatomy of aggressive behavior. The subjects used in this study were selected from a population-based sample of six to nine years old. 556 children a part of a Generation R study that participated in the Berkeley Puppet and Interview as well as received a Magnetic resonance scan (MR). The parents were also used in this study where they had to complete a checklist about their child’s behavior.
Childhood Disruptive Behaviors Early Childhood Children at this stage (aged 4 to 8) understand the world by perceiving it, being influenced by it, and acting on it. In turn, the surrounding world shapes the child. This demonstrates the role of nurture within the child’s environment, as well as its role in developing behavior patterns. Longitudinal studies have demonstrated that behavior patterns and personality are established during the early formative years. Research suggests that, when children come from unhealthy backgrounds, such as dysfunctional, abusive homes, they are much less likely to develop adequately physically, academically, and emotionally.
A primary shaper of the juvenile and their actions is the environment in which they grow up in. Family environment has the potential to have a major effect on the outcome and behaviors of the juvenile (Myers 430). Family has such a huge effect because it is the earliest source of interaction the juvenile experiences. According to Louise Gerdes, “72 percent of jailed juveniles
Teen Violence is a big dilemma in today’s society. Violent behaviors usually start from family and peers, as well as teens observing it at there neighborhoods or communities. These behaviors are reinforced by what youth see on television, on the Internet, in video games, movies, music videos, and what they hear in their music. When children are disciplined with severe corporal punishment or verbal abuse, or when they are physically or sexually abused, or when they witness such behavior in their home, it is not surprising that they behave violently toward others. Teen Violence has had such an impact in our youth today that it leads many destructive things and that’s why we have so much violence today.
Pirruzia, T (2011).Review of the Roots of Youth Violence: Literature Reviews. (n.d.). Chapter 1: Biosocial Theory. Retrieved May 1, 2014, from http://www.children.gov.on.ca/htdocs/English/topics/youthandthelaw/roots/volume5/chapter01_biosocial_theory.aspx
Throughout my life I have experienced issues with being antisocial but not in the most obvious way. In the way where I could converse with and befriend others, my issues were I tend to be antisocial when it comes to friendship and being in groups of people. I always find myself to be straying off. To this day I still cannot perceive why. It is highly sensible to say I endure complications when it comes to feeling included. This is due to my anxiety disorder. Growing up I was overly self-conscious. Over time this small issue goes out of hand, thus passing to my mother taking me to a doctor who then recommended me to a sort life coach, you could call her a therapist but that’s not quite what she is. In the darkness of that phase of my life
“Children are a product of their environment”, is something I constantly hear when a either a young person is acting out or a young person doesn’t look “socially acceptable”. Delinquency and children’s behavior was something I have grown to become interested in during our class; thus leading me to analyze different theories on youth and the factors that prompted the onset of delinquent and how they continue to sustain their negative behavior. I personally do not completely agree with any one theory that applies to youth and child delinquency, yet there are points within each theory that I can agree with. In the following pages I will describe theories such as Choice Theory, Biosocial Theory, and Differential Association Theory.
The notion that people are “born bad” and will eventually develop from misbehaved children into criminal adults, is one popular position with clear policy implications. It ignors the fact that people do change, often in quite significant ways. People are not on a fixed path from deviant child to criminal adult (Wright et al., 2008). There does however seem to be a link between childhood and adult behavior. Caspi, Harrington, Milne, Amell, Theodore, and Moffitt (2003), observed 1,000 3-year-old children and reexamined most of them 23 years later. They identified five temperament groups within the children. These temperament groupings were compared with adult personality traits identified in the 23 year later follow up. There were many colorations between childhood temperament groupings and adult personality traits. For example, children in the under-controlled temperament group showed the highest levels of Negative Emotionality as adults and children in the confident group became the most disinhibited adults. Several other temperament groups show similar correlations at a small to moderate effect level. It would appear that there are meaningful connections between childhood behavioral styles and adult personality ...
The distinction between nature versus nurture or even environment versus heredity leads to the question of: does the direct environment or the nature surrounding an adolescent directly influence acts of delinquency, later progressing further into more radical crimes such as murder or psychotic manifestation, or is it directly linked to the hereditary traits and genes passed down from that individual adolescent’s biological parents? To answer this question one must first understand the difference between nature, nurture, environment, and heredity. Nurture, broken down further into environment, is defined as various external or environmental factors one is exposed to which can be more specifically broken down into social and physical aspects. Nature, itself broken down into heredity, is defined as the genetics and the individual characteristics in one’s personality or even human nature.