How Childhood Trauma Contributes to Violent Offenders

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Research Topic
How does early childhood trauma contribute to specifically or explicitly to offenders who
are violent?
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In recent times, it has been seen that criminal behavior is increasing in children in a very
fast manner. Not only the regular crime but also they are being involved in serious and violent
crimes also. Children and adults are an important factor in every society and are responsible for
the development of the same. It is very well known that for the development of nation youth
needs to be on right path. There are many factors behind the criminal behavior of children. These
factors are those which develop frustration and mens ria in the mind of children and motivate
them to conduct a crime. These factors include social, economic, psychological, and biological
factors. When one or more factors are there, children gets involve in offending. Studies of these
factors are one of the aspects of criminology. Here this is to state that Criminology can be
understood as an area of sociology, which focuses on the study of crimes and its social impacts,
effects, and causes.
In the presented report, one of the important factors of child criminology will be
discussed which is childhood trauma. Childhood trauma and violent behavior is a global public
health issue (Fulu et al, 2017). Different children get a different environment. Some of them get
very good and positive environment and faces social issues like poverty, violence, and cruelness
by family members or society in their childhood. These are the factors, which has a great

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influence on the brains of children and they develop their behavior accordingly. The presented
report will describe the way in which childhood trauma affect and develop crim.
As per the belief of one of the criminologist Dr named Adrian Raine, both social as well
as biological factors are responsible to develop a murderer. Further, it has been agreed that
criminals are more violent in nature when they experienced an abusive upbringing (Gao et al,
2010). The main reason behind this is that a child who faces violent behavior in childhood
becomes very destructive in nature. They stop considering themselves a part of society. Many
primary and secondary types of research have been made in this area, which has founded and
concluded different results. Felitti et al, 1998 identified 10 risk factors out of the study of around
9000 participants. These factors included obesity, suicide attempts, smoking, alcoholism,
parental drug abuse, physical inactivity, drug abuse, and sexual promiscuity. In addition to risk
factors, 7 disease conditions also were examined that also includes some serious disease such as
cancer, diabetes, and jaundice. A positive relationship between a number of adverse childhood
experience and risk behaviors has been found.
Apart from this, another study was developed on 50 serial killers. This seems to be a very
landmark study in which childhood abuse was found more prevalent in lust serial killers.
Michael G. Aamodt, who was one of the authors of the subjective study, stated that data found in
the study presented that most of the serial killers experienced childhood abuse more than in
comparison to the public (Allely, Minnis, Thompson, Wilson, & Gillberg, 2014). It is certain that
sexual, psychological, and physical are three general kinds of abuse that a child face and can
influence their choice of victim. In the book written by Joel Norris, the cycle of violence can be
described as generational. It was stated in the book that the parent who physically or mentally
abuse their child develop a sense in them that violence is the first resort of any challenge. It is