Children Develop Offending Behaviour

Children Develop
Offending Behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Development Theories and how they shape and influence a young person’s development.. 3
Interruption to Development..................................................................................................5
Complimentary and Contrasting Examples............................................................................6
CONCLUSION .....................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
There are a lot of factors and characteristics that contribute or are associated with the
development of offending behaviour in children and in young people. The interactions and
relationship of children and adolescents with their family members and peer are the main reason
that develops anti social and offending behaviour in them (Sisson, Smith and Cheney, 2017).
Generally this behaviour is adopted, where a child is neglected by his parents or an adolescent is
badly treated by their peers. Behaviour of them is reflection of what they cannot express to
others about how they feel. In this report we will discuss the three theories (behaviourism,
Cognitive and Attachment theory) that will explain, how children and adolescent develop
offending behaviour and how these theory can shape and influence the development in children
and adolescent.
MAIN BODY
Development Theories and how they shape and influence a young person’s development.
Behaviourism Theory of Development
Behaviourism is a kind of learning theory that mainly focuses on the observable
behaviours. There are two approaches to this theory i.e. Classical conditioning and Operant
conditioning. Classical conditioning is that where a child or adolescent learn things from the
associations that may be between the environmental stimulus or it can also be naturally
occurred stimulus. For Example: A father usually when comes home and bang the door
hard, he is always angry. This way the kids developed a behaviour that whenever the
door is banged hard by their father, he is angry.
 Operant Conditioning is when a child learns how they are suppose to behave through
rewards. This behaviour is when the child is asked to do something in return of
something every time (Barnes and Puccioni, 2017). For Example: Whenever a child is
crying, his mother takes him to park. This act was repeatedly done due to which child
developed a behaviour in which they know that if they cry they will be taken to the park.
When ever a child develops certain behaviour, by using this theory the development can
be done of the child and adolescents or young people. With the help of this theory, the child
behaviour can be moulded with the parents encourage positive behaviour and encourage