Violent criminals abused as children. Study wanted.

[aleles]

Do you guys know the study that Stef mentions saying that almost all violent criminals were abused as children? A few articles I found quote these numbers

 

14% of all men in prison in the USA were abused as children.

36% of all women in prison were abused as children.

 

Thanks!

[Pepin]

He provides a lot of sources in the Bomb in the Brain presentation. The ACE study might be what you are looking for.

 

 

If not, I'm sure there is something here in this playlist.

 

[aleles]

Thank you, Pepin. I went through the list of links for it, but many of them are broken by now.

 

Here're two studies we found

 

1) https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/fs000204.pdf

They say that "rates of abuse among juvenile and adult inmates range from a low of 9 percent to a high of 75 to 80 percent."

However, there is a strange conclusion:

"Previous research would suggest that violent offenders

should be expected to report higher rates of childhood

physical abuse. However, contrary to expectations,

violent and nonviolent offenders reported similar rates

of childhood physical abuse, even of very serious forms."

 

 

2) http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=837

 

With their definitions they say

14% of all men in prison in the USA were abused as children.

36% of all women in prison were abused as children.

[Kaki]

I know about this (unfortunately in German- but maybe someone can help you!

 

Here is the English abstract:

 

The study explores particular circumstances of life that may predispose people for the participation in extremist and terrorist groups and felonies. The biographies of 39 left, right or islamist extremists and terrorists were analysed in their full depth and complexity, thereby concentrating on the actor’s individual experience and self-perception as well as his personal view on “extremism” and “terrorism”. To this end the data was collected via “narrative interviews” adapted from Schütze, allowing the interviewees to speak freely, unfolding the structure of meanings and senses within their biographies independently. The data was analysed by, on the one hand, focussing on each case separately and on the other hand by developing a classification which made it possible to compare the cases irrespective of ideological differences. The research treats various significant is- sues of the interviewees’ lives – for instance violence, their families or life in and outside of the scene – and identifies factors that all biographies have in common. One of the central results of analysis shows that the interviewees come from a precarious family background in which collaborative and functional ways of solving and coping with problems could not be established. Perspectively, the study pro- poses relevant fields of action for the prevention of processes of radicalisation and extremist and terrorist crime.

 

 

 

Also maybe interesting is this. This link brings you to a study about:

"Prevalence of and factors associated with non-partner rape perpetration: findings from the UN Multi-country Cross-sectional Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific"

 

Here is a quote from it under the title Interpretations:

 

Rape perpetration committed by men is quite frequent in the general population in the countries studied, as it is in other countries where similar research has been undertaken, such as South Africa. Prevention of rape is essential, and interventions must focus on childhood and adolescence, and address culturally rooted male gender socialisation and power relations, abuse in childhood, and poverty."

 

 

 

 

I don't have much time right now but I will see if I can find more later!

[aleles]

Thanks Kaki!

 

Mike suggested the following

 

The Primordial Violence by Murray Straus - that's like the bible for anti-spanking/child abuse/violence research

[Better Future]

Why would a person choose to become a violent criminal? Seems like a strange choice to me.