There are many different risk factors are children face throughout their childhood that could affect their later on in their life. As we focused on different risk factors that affect the children while they are still in the mother’s womb, this week we are going to focus on early life risk factors and how certain factors could relate to later life delinquency. Early life risk factors can relate to anti-social behavior which should be detected earlier in life so preventative services could be provided to the child. There are four major categories of childhood factors that will lead to child delinquency and even possible later juvenile offending. It is Individual factors which can be early antisocial behavior poor cognitive development, ADHD.
