NUTR 430 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Elder Abuse, Complete Control, Malice Aforethought
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Have abnormal eeg readings, learning disabilities, and. Suffer from neurological impairment, low intelligence, and psychosis psychotic symptoms. Abnormal personality structure (depression, borderline personality syndrome, psychopathy) Ineffective, abusive, or inadequate parenting linked to a child"s violence. Victims of childhood abuse later engage in violent delinquent behaviour. At a rate higher than those who did not experience child abuse. A factor in many cases in which parents killed by own children. Physically punished children more likely to project behaviour on siblings and spouses. Brutalization process the first stage in a violent career, during which parents victimize children, causing them to develop a belligerent, angry demeanour. Confrontation with victimized children often leads to a hostile response. They feel they have power that the world is afraid of them and they"re in control. The victim eventually becomes the initiator inflicting abusive behaviour on others. Believed human aggression and violence produced by instinctual drives; eros and thanatos.
