Adult Crime Linked To Childhood Anxiety

Posted By : Rick Hughey on November 19th, 2008 | File Under Childhood Anxiety -

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An Anglo-Italian research team has discovered a relation between childhood behavioral patterns and the onset of criminality in later years. In this study it was found that at the childhood, different feelings such as anxiety, nervousness and social isolation may protect teens from becoming criminal but after the age of 21 this effect may be diminish.

According to Dr Georgia Zara from the University of Turin and Dr David Farrington from the University of Cambridge, “It can be possible to predict adult offending from childhood behavior. Early psychological behavioral have played an important role in delaying criminal behavior until adulthood”.

Both Zara and Farrington research on total of 400 males in London between the age group of 8 to 10 and 48 to 50. In this research it was found that late onset criminals have more nervous, less friends and less likely to have sexual intercourse by the age of 18.