Runnign Head: FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY

Forensic Psychology

Forensic Psychology

Introduction

The paper is concerned with the nexus between abuse, neglect, and adolescents offending in the lives of adolescents, and adults. According to many previous researches both of these are a result of lack of coordination and response to these activities, by the families and the Juvenile systems. It has been seen historically that young children and infants have been quite vulnerable to the problems such as neglect and abuse, and there is an increasing number of evidence suggesting that suggesting that the early development process of children's are mostly vulnerable to neglect and abuse.

There are now a sufficient number of researches in the field of the psychology of criminal behavior to assess the long-term impact of experiences during childhood and adolescence on the behavior of the person once went to adulthood. In preparing this document, we proceeded first to a meta-analysis to examine the research studies on the effects of various experiences some people during their childhood and adolescence, people who, as adults, have been involved with the criminal justice system. The long-term results showed that there was a correlation between childhood experiences and adult criminal behavior. Once established early predictors, we reviewed studies that evaluate the results of treatment programs for these predictors. In the Canadian context, the immediate relevance of this review is to define, for the National Crime Prevention targets for prevention and early detection corresponding to established predictors of criminal behavior in adulthood.

Discussion

According to the results of a recent comparative study of abused children and private care and children who had not suffered such abuse, abused and neglected children are more likely to be delinquent and to adopt a criminal and violent behavior as adults. According to the hypothesis of the cycle of violence, or transmission of violence across generations, battered children beat their children while victims of violence become violent offenders. However, a recent review of the research done in this field has shown that empirical evidence to support this hypothesis is scarce.

Although the theory of the cycle of violence makes many followers, research has encountered methodological problems and has therefore not yet possible to draw conclusions about the long-term effects of child victimization. Among these problems, it is particularly the lack of a control group that can be compared to the group of individuals who have suffered abuse or been abused. Also, there is the question of the retrospective design of the studies requires the researcher to rely on the memory of offenders to obtain details of their childhood (Alder, 1997).

The study discussed here is that further research that preceded it: it is based on a relatively precise definition of what constitutes abuse and neglect, and it follows a prospective, that is to say it follows the development of children rather than trying to reconstruct the past by digging, it covers a large sample, and it is also a control group that closely resembles the experimental group of individuals by age, sex their race and social ...