Childhood family and personological risk factors for sexual offending

Female murderers: Examination of the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and anger expression

“…While trait anger scores were found to be higher among those who are suffering from problematic family relationships, internal anger scores were lower among those participants. Discussion Starzyk and Marshall (2003) state that criminal behavior has its roots in early childhood experiences. Individuals who experienced trauma in their childhood may have an increased tendency for social violence and crime in adulthood (Ayan, 2007;Cankurtaran & Baykara, 2005, as cited in Coşgun, 2010;Herrera & McCloskey, 2001).…”

“…Research suggested that, children exposed to violence at home often have higher levels of anger reactions and aggressive behaviors (Ford, Fraleigh & Cannor, 2010;Milletich, Kelley, Doane, & Pearson, 2010;Öztop, & Özcan, 2010;Taner, & Gökler, 2004). Additionally, they supported the assumption that individuals who experienced childhood trauma have a higher risk of behaving violently in their future (Annerback, Wingren, Suedin, & Gustafsson, 2010;Cankurtaran & Baykara, 2005 as cited in Coşgun, 2010;Grotevan, van Dulmen, Dunbar, Nelson-Christinedaughter, Christensen, Fan & Miller, 2006;Lansford, Miller-Johnson, Berlin, Dodge, Bates & Pettit, 2007;Özmen, 2014;Wolfe, Wekerle, Scott, Straatman & Grasley, 2004) and this in turn, increases their probability of being involved in violent crimes (Maxfield & Widom, 1996;Widom & White, 1997;Weizmann-Henelius, 2006;Starzyk & Marshall, 2003;Rodway, Norrington-Moore, While, Hunt, Flynn, Swinson, Roscoe, Appleby & Shaw, 2011). This result was confirmed for both men and women.…”

Predictive validity of the HCR‐20 for violent and non‐violent sexual behaviour in a secure mental health service

“…This finding thus precludes any conclusions about the ability of clinicians to predict non-violent inappropriate sexual behaviour, but we think that the high sensitivity and negative predictive value of the summary judgement suggests that, where the sexual offending status of an individual is unknown, a low risk summary judgement might indicate that an individual does not require more specialised sexual violence risk assessment. High HCR-20 scores, however, with the presence of additional risk factors for inappropriate sexual behaviour such as childhood abuse (Lee et al, 2002;Starzyk and Marshall, 2003) and sexual deviancy (Hanson and Morton-Bourgon, 2005), may indicate the need for further assessment.…”

Aile İçinde Öfke ve Saldırganlığın Yansımaları

“…It can be said that the children are directly affected when they witness the anger and aggression in the family or when they are exposed to violance or when the parents decide to divorce because of anger and aggression. Starzyk and Marshall (2003), declare that the source of problematic attitudes, especially attitudes which tend towards crime, is the experiences of the childhood. Frias-Armenta (2002), has seen in his research that the adults who were exposed to oral or physical violance can be deppressive people, can be addicted to alcohol, can show anti-social attitudes and in future can punish their children.…”

“…Ayrıca Şahin ve Beyazova'nın (2001) bildirdiğine göre, anne babanın yaşının çok genç olması, işsizlik, ekonomik sıkıntılar, aile içi geçimsizlik, alkol ya da uyuşturucu kullanımı, çok çocuklu aile, anne babada ruhsal bozukluk gibi etmenler aile içinde çocuğun istismar ve ihmale maruz kalmasını artırmaktadır. Starzyk ve Marshall (2003), problemli davranışların özellikle suça yönelik davranışların kökeninin çocukluktaki yaşantılara dayandığını belirtmektedirler. Frias-Armenta (2002), yapmış olduğu araştırmada, çocuklukta fiziksel ve sözel olarak saldırganlığa maruz kalan yetişkinlerin ileriki yaşlarında depresyon düzeyleri, alkol kullanımı, antisosyal davranış ve kendi çocuklarını cezalandırma gibi davranış özellikleri gösterdiklerini gözlemiştir.…”