Personality disorder caused by childhood trauma leads to criminal Behaviors

Abstract

Genetic factors are known to cause human beings’ personality disorders; however, childhood trauma could also affect children in their lifetime. Furthermore, patients with personality disorders caused by their childhood experiences are more likely to commit a crime. More specifically, neglect of parents will cause the children to have antisocial behavior in their childhood and then develop an antisocial personality disorder. ASPD is known to be the disorder that causes the highest crime rate. Children with helicopter parents have a higher risk of depression; this disorder may not be directly related to criminal behavior but seems more aggressive and violent since their self-control ability is weak. Bullying or online bullying is significantly related to bipolar disorder, another PD that will cause individuals to commit the crime. What’s more, the high offense rate is also led by the low-income family, since children with a family like this will grow up in a more dangerous and complex area that will cause them to have various personality disorders. All these situations could be saved by using cognitive and biological or other treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Electro-Convulsive Therapy after the form of PD, reducing the crime rate since PD will cause a higher crime rate.