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11 Prenatal and Perinatal Factors in the Development of Persistent Criminality

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This chapter will explore the various perinatal and delivery complications that predict future chronic offending. More specifically, this review will explore the risk factors that have been found for infants during pregnancy, with an emphasis on the most common problems in the delivery stage, as well as the risk factors in the first year of life. It will be shown that there is a wide range of important risk factors in these pre- and perinatal stages in predicting future criminality. This chapter will discuss these various maladies around mothers’ pregnancies, delivery problems, as well as early infancy, and the effects that they have on the development of habitual offending, especially when combined with maladaptive environmental factors early in life.

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    Stephen G. Tibbetts

  2. Department of Communication Studies, California State University, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA, USA

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Tibbetts, S.G., Rivera, J. (2015). 11 Prenatal and Perinatal Factors in the Development of Persistent Criminality. In: Morizot, J., Kazemian, L. (eds) The Development of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08720-7_11

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