Antisocial Behavior In Children

It is quite evident that brain imaging is key to understanding why an antisocial persons’ characteristics are the way they are. In studying how the brain works, and what functions predispose to certain behaviors perhaps steps can be taken when an adolescent or adult undergoes trauma. One of the important takeaways one must bare in mind while reading this paper is that though certain environments and scenarios may predispose one to being antisocial, it is not always guaranteed. It is simply that when observing violence juveniles and adults, time and time again they replicate data previously had, reinforcing the areas researchers feel are causal for such behavior. Nevertheless, there is much to be learned on all fronts, and a considerable amount

of information can be gathered from can be learned from gene study as well as I will illustrate in the next subsection.
As we take into consideration adolescent upbringings, it is important to consider the effects that the environment has on predisposition to antisocial behavior.

“Environment changes early in development can influence gene expression”. This fact is crucial because ultimately, environmental aspects on juveniles of all ages can ultimately change the manner in which a gene interacts with and responds to neuronal structure. With this process in mind, conduct disposed kids have a higher temperament, and a negative environmental space is allowed around a child that that is not otherwise positive, the brains function can be altered, and in the end the child could end up as an antisocial teenager, and criminal

adult.
For instance, the MAOA, or monoamine oxidase gene has been associated with both antisocial behavior and reductions in volume of the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex. In mice observation, when the gene is taken out, they become aggressive, and when reactivated, they exhibit normal behavior. In like manner, Antisocial adolescents and adults are are seen to have reduced futon of the gene, meaning no cortisol to inhibit violent impulses. This type of aggressive behavior can also be amplified and dangerous in poor situations and negative environments.
Leading of the the environment impact, “It appears that children who are raised in families where violence and other forms of antisocial behavior are modeled consistently by siblings or parents are more likely to engage in violence themselves”.

If the culture of violence becomes normalized in the daily routine of adolescents, then it can only be expected that they externalize in a violent manner, because thats is what they are taught. Children of 10 years, when found to exhibit antisocial behavior in school, were found to be antisocial later in life as well, accounting to the fact that, “Behavior problems are often manifested early in life and continue, in more severe forms, through adolescence”.
Environmental factors play a crucial role in predicting the level of asocial behavior in children and adults. Things such as poor family management and conflict, hyperactivity in teens 14-16, as well as academic stimulation and peer delinquency serve as one of the many cues help to determine such outcomes, and as reach continues on that front, it is likely that intervention programs will be enacted to keep the level of asocial young adults and rising adults

low.
In conjunction with environmental factors, aggression levels in during childhood has effects on the teenage and adult delinquency. Brooke et al. found that the presence of early disruptive characteristics such as fighting is related to later substance use which then leads to delinquency". Delinquency, just like birth defects can have a reaction effect on a young individual. Drug use, just like dulled brain receptors, can make a person more stimulations seeking because he/she is unconcerned with the consequences that surround drug use. In addition, drug use in delinquent tease is linked to later crime and delinquency both in teen years and adulthood. And just as it causes people to seek out stimulations, antisocial individuals will seek out more drugs as delinquency increases. In many ways, delinquency behavior works in a manner not different from early birth complications. Drug use and crime increase stimulations, which, in turn, causes the teen or adult to use again in order to feel the need to achieve said stimulation.
"Adolescents may commit crimes in order to obtain money to purchase drugs. Drug use may cause adolescents to associate with other drug users who may also be delinquent. through interaction with these adolescents or young adults, whether by a process of socialization or modeling, patterns of substance use learned via the group may transfer into delinquent behavior". In serving such behavior, I’ve come to the conclusion that such behavior is them perhaps trying to gain back a sense of being, or perhaps a sense of power, or feeling that they feel they never had. For someone who feels less because they are more callous, they will continue to feel that such processes are necessary in order to invoke some sort of emotional response. This need for feeling does not go away, and will likely replicate and manifest itself more frequently in the future for asocial children.
"Early drug use and peer drug use predicted increased levels of predatory violence but not its simple occurrence". If one is using drugs, then there is a high probability that the peers around said person, in addition to his own social group, are using them. As a result, delinquency and predatory violence will increase as a result, and provide a sense of being alive for an antisocial individual. Such things as bonds in middle school, violent behavior, poor grades, and early dug use play important roles in ones becoming antisocial. Perhaps, for those moving forward, more preventative measures for such unforgiving circumstances can help to alter and have a positive effect on those that are considered, as well as predisposed to violent, criminal behavior.
Our environment is key as adolescents growing up to how one shapes their mind, especially when already predisposed to antisocial behavior through drug use, and a violent home-life. As of the present, its unclear as to the route people are willing to take in terms of preventative measures. Psychopaths and violent criminals may well know what they are doing is socially wrong, yet they cannot stop it because they feel no way about it. Only with time, and more research will researchers devise effective ways to socially and scientifically counteract and diagnose antisocial behavior
Conclusion:
In looking forward, one must think about preventative measures. How can doctors, as well as researchers and even parents formulate plans to prevent the development of antisocial behavior where possible? The key, in any situation, is intervention. In class, we discussed the possibility of psychologists creating intervention programs the focused on the parents, as well as the child following a plan that put emphasis on positive reinforcement so as to not alienate the child, as well as implemented programs that will make the child understand the error off his/her ways as opposed to simply stigmatizing the individual if thy do something wrong.
Through intervention, whether it be stopping mothers from smoking, to altering of genes and brain stimulation in the areas that seem to have the least feeling, to improving the environment a child is emerged in at home and at school, when the issue is assessed right at the area that seems to be its weakest, followed by formulation of an effective plan, and proper execution, more efficient and positive steps forward can be taken.
This and that which has been undergone thus far is making tremendous strides in advancing the current knowledge. With more time, as well as more research being done to properly assess and categorize problem areas in criminology and antisocial behavior, a broader definition of exactly what it is, as well as a more clear-cut and efficient way to fix the deeper issues will pave itself.