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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
PhiPsiRuss and Valkyrie--
A situation and question for you all:
From my perspective, these kids were jacked the minute they were born. For whatever reason, most kids do not have severe emotional disturbances with a psychotic behavior without have major birth defects and developmental problems from jump.
Basically, the crack babies are teens now...
Brain cell connections are made from day one after embryonic development. They are completed around the time the kid is 9-12 for some brain parts... Others brain connections may never get completed. This is basic neurobiology--it is called "long terminal potentiation" or LTP. It has been suggested that some mental disorders are caused by inappropriate LTPs--or incorrect brain connections to other parts of the body. Meaning if these kids were jacked from their mother's being substance abusers, then the kiddie's brain connections have yet to form, much less properly or appropriately... I think this is relevant for schizophrenia...
Then you've got the severe emotionally disturbed kids that were physically or sexually abused and they may or may not be crack babies also...
So I see this "Clockwork Orange 'ultraviolence'" occurences that could be medically treatable with cognitive therapeutics. Much like mentally retarded children get help throughout their lives...
Maybe when these kids were on a bad track in life, they could have gone through some program?
I dunno.
But the main problem is that most of the violent offender teens "look normal"--no physcial defects, they "test normally"--no low IQ because they can even begin to comprehend basic set--they have low IQ because they cannot sit still long enough to learn the material, and they can tell the difference between "right" and "wrong" for other situations, but not theirs--a misjudgement problem.
So how does the "state" address these issues is my main question?
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You make the most sense about the whole problem, IMHO. This is why I think that we need a third tier of the penal system. These offenders shouldn't be lumped in with delinquent children, nor with career criminals.
Then we have the 8-year-old killers. What happens to them? Are we really so optimistic about reform that we think that, once they've killed, they won't kill again? Do we dare take the chance?
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