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Fearlessness in juvenile offenders is associated with offending rate

Fearlessness in juvenile offenders is associated with offending rate
Fearlessness in juvenile offenders is associated with offending rate
Poor fear conditioning is a correlate of violent offending in adults, but there is no evidence concerning juvenile offenders. Our aim was to compare emotional learning in juvenile offenders and controls and establish whether crime rate is related to seriousness of emotional learning problems. To this end, emotional learning was assessed in 42 juvenile offenders by measuring skin conductance responding (SCR) during fear conditioning. Compared to controls, juvenile offenders showed lower conditioned SCRs to visual stimuli associated with a subsequent aversive stimulus and the magnitude of the SCR during fear acquisition was inversely associated with the number of their recorded offences. These findings suggest that juvenile offenders have impairments in the neural systems that subserve emotional learning. The implication is that using punitive measures to control persistent offenders is unlikely to be effective in an identifiable group of juvenile offenders
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Syngelaki, Eva
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Fairchild, Graeme
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Moore, Simon
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Savage, Justin
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Van Goozen, Stephanie
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Syngelaki, Eva
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Savage, Justin
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Van Goozen, Stephanie
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Syngelaki, Eva, Fairchild, Graeme, Moore, Simon, Savage, Justin and Van Goozen, Stephanie (2013) Fearlessness in juvenile offenders is associated with offending rate. Developmental Science, 16 (1), 84-90. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01191.x.). (PMID:23278929)

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Abstract

Poor fear conditioning is a correlate of violent offending in adults, but there is no evidence concerning juvenile offenders. Our aim was to compare emotional learning in juvenile offenders and controls and establish whether crime rate is related to seriousness of emotional learning problems. To this end, emotional learning was assessed in 42 juvenile offenders by measuring skin conductance responding (SCR) during fear conditioning. Compared to controls, juvenile offenders showed lower conditioned SCRs to visual stimuli associated with a subsequent aversive stimulus and the magnitude of the SCR during fear acquisition was inversely associated with the number of their recorded offences. These findings suggest that juvenile offenders have impairments in the neural systems that subserve emotional learning. The implication is that using punitive measures to control persistent offenders is unlikely to be effective in an identifiable group of juvenile offenders

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Published date: January 2013
Organisations: Psychology

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Local EPrints ID: 346608
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/346608
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ORCID for Graeme Fairchild: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7814-9938

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Date deposited: 03 Jan 2013 13:39
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 12:38

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Author: Eva Syngelaki
Author: Graeme Fairchild ORCID iD
Author: Simon Moore
Author: Justin Savage
Author: Stephanie Van Goozen

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