01:920:222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Low Birth Weight, Brain Injury, Prenatal Care
27 Apr 2019
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Teen crime involves 2 types of offenders. Delinquent in teen years; may be chronic juvenile offenders. Integrates biological, psychological, and social variables to explain both pathways to crime. At age 4: lcps bite and hit others. At age 10: skip school and steal from others. At age 16: sell drugs and steal cars. At age 20: they rape and rob. At age 30: they commit fraud and child abuse. Starts when normal brain development is disrupted due to: These neuropsychological defects or disruptions of brain development cause psychological defects. Can make child hyperactive, unable to regulate behavior, unable to pay attention, impulsive and poor at reasoning. Express themselves poorly in speech and writing. Kids with these defects interact badly with their social environments. Kids with neuropsychological defects evoke negative reactions from parents: Parents get irritable and impatient bc they"re irritable, demanding, and slow to develop. Results in dysfunctional parental/child relationship that may include abuse, neglect.
