‘Childhood abuses lead to criminal tendencies’
The Hindu
Calicut varsity team conducts study among habitual offenders
Abuses suffered during childhood could lead to development of criminal tendencies among some people, a study done by a team at the University of Calicut has found.
According to a release on Monday, the study revealed that children who were subjected to physical and mental torture would turn out to have a violent behaviour when they grow up and there was a high possibility of them becoming anti-social elements.
It was done by M.S. Sivaprasad, former researcher at the biochemistry and toxicology lab of the Department of Zoology and currently an assistant professor in Forensic Science at the Kerala Police Academy, Y. Shibu Vardhan, guide and Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, and Jayesh K. Joseph, criminologist at the Kerala Police Academy. Details were published in the international journal Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma.
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