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Child Abuse

Published: 16th March 2018     

Good grades could deter victims of child abuse from a life of crime

The researchers found that primarily preventing child abuse is imperative in reducing antisocial behaviour during the shift from adolescence to adulthood

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Good grades and engagement in school could really help youth from falling onto the dark side of crime (representative image) | AFP

Abuse- sexual, emotional or other- is brutal and can have a life-altering impact on the victim, leading them to commit crimes later in life. A new study has found that good grades could actually help protect and prevent these victims from indulging in criminal behaviour. The emotional and sexual abuse that some children endure could lead them to a life of crime much later.

However, when children achieve good grades and don't skip school, the likelihood of self-reported, chronic criminal behaviours declines significantly, said researchers. "Child abuse is a risk factor for later antisocial behaviour," said Todd Herrenkohl from the University of Michigan in the US. 

"Education and academic achievement can lessen the risk of crime for all youth, including those who have been abused (encountered stress and adversity)," Herrenkohl said. In addition to crime/antisocial behaviour, the researchers also investigated effects on physical and mental health, drug and alcohol abuse, intergenerational transmission of violence, and socio-economic disadvantage.

The researchers examined 356 people from childhood (ages 18 months to 6 years) in 1976-1977, school-age (8 years) in 1980-1982, adolescent (18 years) in 1990-1992 and adulthood (36 years) in 2010. According to the findings published in the  Journal of Interpersonal Violence, the abuse led to people more likely to commit crimes, but this was not the case for those who had been neglected in their early years.

Successful school experiences kept teens from both committing crimes and having antisocial behaviour. But for youth suspended in grades 7 to 9, the chronic offending habits and antisocial behaviour continued later in life, they said. The researchers found that the primary prevention of child abuse is a critical first step to reducing antisocial behaviour at the transition from adolescence into adulthood 

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