engaging in criminal acts, if they were neglected or abused” (Jones). The increase in a child’s risk of participating in criminal activity is due to the trauma of being neglected or abused by their caretaker and even by those around them. Consequently, the child will grow up and face a life filled with criminal activities. Traumatic experiences, including a chaotic and abusive home life, often results in a child exhibiting delinquent behaviors as an adult. A chaotic home life can also foster the development of mental health problems, including ADHD.
Continuing the discussion of social factors, the economic lens shows that another predeterminant of criminality is a person’s economic status. Economic status is determined by class level, wealth, …show more content…
These common characteristics demonstrate a relationship between impaired brain usage and crime. The human brain facilitates all human behavior; violence, aggression, ideology, fear, as well as “all human emotional, behavioral, cognitive and social functioning. This three pound mass of 100 billion neurons and 1000 billion glial cells is infinitely complex,” says Dr. Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally recognized authority on brain development (Perry). Clara Moskowitz, an active writer on Livescience, who holds a graduate certificate in science writing, signifies that those with antisocial personality disorders “typically have no regard for right and wrong” and “they may often violate the law and the rights of others” (Moskowitz). Since this antisocial personality disorder can characterize many certain criminals at this time, scientists look to what may make an individual behave like that of a felon. Brain scans of antisocial people compared with a control group of individuals without any personality or mental disorders “showed on average an 18-percent reduction in the volume of the brain's middle frontal gyrus, and a 9 percent reduction in the volume of the orbital frontal gyrus – two sections in the brain's frontal lobe” (Moskowitz). People with a dysfunctional brain are unable to control to control how their brain works and in turn grow up to become criminals. Although interesting, people cannot alter or fix structural abnormalities in the brain. People who are born with a reduction in the gyrus leading to antisocial personality disorder demonstrates an individual who had no control over his/her development of their personality disorder, and as proved earlier, that leads to an increased risk of performing deviant
Continuing the discussion of social factors, the economic lens shows that another predeterminant of criminality is a person’s economic status. Economic status is determined by class level, wealth, …show more content…
These common characteristics demonstrate a relationship between impaired brain usage and crime. The human brain facilitates all human behavior; violence, aggression, ideology, fear, as well as “all human emotional, behavioral, cognitive and social functioning. This three pound mass of 100 billion neurons and 1000 billion glial cells is infinitely complex,” says Dr. Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally recognized authority on brain development (Perry). Clara Moskowitz, an active writer on Livescience, who holds a graduate certificate in science writing, signifies that those with antisocial personality disorders “typically have no regard for right and wrong” and “they may often violate the law and the rights of others” (Moskowitz). Since this antisocial personality disorder can characterize many certain criminals at this time, scientists look to what may make an individual behave like that of a felon. Brain scans of antisocial people compared with a control group of individuals without any personality or mental disorders “showed on average an 18-percent reduction in the volume of the brain's middle frontal gyrus, and a 9 percent reduction in the volume of the orbital frontal gyrus – two sections in the brain's frontal lobe” (Moskowitz). People with a dysfunctional brain are unable to control to control how their brain works and in turn grow up to become criminals. Although interesting, people cannot alter or fix structural abnormalities in the brain. People who are born with a reduction in the gyrus leading to antisocial personality disorder demonstrates an individual who had no control over his/her development of their personality disorder, and as proved earlier, that leads to an increased risk of performing deviant