Connection Between Child Abuse & Delinquency

The principle of rationalization is the most general element in Weber's philosophy of history. For the rise and fall of institutional structures, the ups and downs of classes, parties, and rulers implement the general drift of secular rationalization. In thinking of the change of human attitudes and mentalities that this process occasions, Weber liked to quote Friedrich Schiller's phrase, the 'disenchantment of the world.' The extent and direction of 'rationalization' is thus measured negatively in terms of the degree to which magical elements of thought are displaced, or positively by the extent to which ideas gain in systematic coherence and naturalistic consistency (Gerth and Mills 51).

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g murderers frequently reported abuse (Withecomb 433). Withecomb (434-5) also cites a series of studies showing that physical abuse that leads to nervous-system damage is implicated in the abused child's later resort to violence, although she cautions that the present status of research shows correlation rather than causation. Physical abuse in the form of maltreatment and neglect, which may entail lack of regular medical care, birth defects, learning disabilities, low verbal skills, and the like, has also been connected to delinquent behavior, which can be connected to a failure to integrate positively with the found conditions of society. On the other hand, studies suggest that abused children can be "hypervigilant" (Withecomb 435) where protection-seeking behavior is concerned. Whether this can be traced to abuse per se, they may misperceive social behavior of others or other external social stimuli as threatening, they may respond to such stimuli in a violent way. What does seem clear is that violence-prone behavior children, which may be a consequence of abuse and a variety of neurophysical consequences at its core, is a fairly reliable predictor of violence-prone behavior in the same children as adolescents and adults. More
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