Battered Child Syndrome Essay

In an article written by author Sandra M. Alter and her colleagues “Cause and Effects of Child abuse,” gives a general idea of how abuse can affect a person leaving them to commit the crimes that they do. “The Cycle of Violence,” suggest that the abuse that is encountered as a young child or adult will more than likely follow you as you get older. (Alter, pg. 59) In a study, a controlled group of 676 children that were maltreated between the ages of six and eleven, as well as a group of 520 that had absolutely no history of maltreatment, suggested that the amount of arrests as a juvenile or adult for any violent crime was 21% for the group that was abused, and 15.6% for the non-abused group. Leading us to believe that any form of violence that is in the family can imprint a young child/adult and cause them to repeat what they had gone throughout their lives. Alter’s colleague Windom had conducted a controlled experiment that suggest how a …show more content…
There is a clear line when Battered Child Syndrome is examined by the different doctors; according to Nelson there are a few different ways to describe the types of serious abuse, while “prosecutors and defense attorneys are distorting Battered Child Syndrome of obfuscating its role in medicine, judged should take care to limit testimony regarding Battered Child Syndrome to faces about the abuse itself rather than the abuser.” Nelson gives a history of how ideas of the Battered Child Syndrome have evolved throughout the many years that have passed, stating that in today’s twentieth century the idea of child abuse is considered to be an unrecognizable trauma. Battered Child Syndrome was never intended to be an unless that a doctor would be able to label, conduct research and create a cure to put an end to