About this title: Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley look at both biological and social factors in a child's environment as sources for violence in later life. They present case histories of children who kill and digest current research on the topic. Their conclusions are compelling and enlightening, and they provide a list of resources for concerned parents.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780871137340ISBN:0871137348
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 1998-12-07
ISBN-13:9780871137340ISBN:0871137348
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Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780871137036ISBN:0871137038
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 1999-02-01
ISBN-13:9780871137340ISBN:0871137348
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780871137340ISBN:0871137348
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, new york
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780871137036ISBN:0871137038
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"I am not giving this book a fair review. Rather than basing my review on the content, I am allowing myself to be influenced by the abject despair that I experienced while reading it. And that's really not fair because this book has some great information.
See, back in the good old days, the thinking was that any trauma that occurred before age 2 or so (that is, prior to verbal memory) could not be remembered and therefore, had no lasting effects on the individual. Newsflash: Not only does early abuse and neglect have lasting effects, but the effects will be more damaging and irreparable than it would be had it occurred later in life. Birth to 2 years is now the "critical period:" the time when attachment forms (and in fact, this is the period when a child either forms healthy attachments or is forever emotionally and relationally crippled.) Not only was science dead wrong to think that early experiences are lost, but in fact the opposite is true: Early trauma will actually become ingrained in the victim's memory--not in the verbal memory, but in the "cellular" memory (ie, the kind of memory that tells us water is wet and that falling down hurts).
To sum up: Lesson No. 1: Victims of early trauma will hold the belief that the world is inherently a terrible and harmful place as though it is branded in their memory. (Try fixing that in 50 minutes.) Lesson No. 2: Antisocial behavior is caused by this kind of trauma because the victims grow up without empathy and without the ability to experience normal emotions. Lesson No. 3: Any failure on my part as a parent will inevitably result in my son becoming a sociopath. Okay, maybe this was some extrapolation on my part, but honestly, I don't know what other point the author could have been trying to make. There certainly isn't any hope for treatment offered. Well, at least not in the first half of the book. Truthfully, I don't know what is in the second half because I had to stop reading. I was too busy obsessing over the time I let my son cry himself to sleep. Or the time I yelled at him once when he peed on the couch. Or how I put him in daycare when I went back to work. Then I had to plan my feeble defense for these actions when my son becomes the next John Waybe Gacy...
This book is not without merit. It offers, for example, an excellent summary of neurological research and a very digestible crash-course on neurobiology (and that stuff is usually lost on me). Read this book if you are a criminologist or a forensic psychologist, or someone trying to make the argument that Jeffrey Dahmer was the product of inappropriate toilet training. If you are the parent of a child under the age of 5, skip this book for now. Grab some Dr. Suess and call it a day."
"I read this book at a very influential time in my life when I was just learning about the importance of early intervention for at-risk kids. The authors trace the roots of violent behavior to abuse and neglect that happens prenatally and in the first two years of life. They present brain research proving that people who have committed violent crimes actually have a different brain structure than the average person. Lots of revealing case studies are included. The book is 10 years old now and probably getting to be outdated, but it had a HUGE impact on me."
"this book is really interesting. i had to read it for my english class. the whole book is arguing that the first 2 years, and the time spent in the womb are the most vital time period for a child and will determine how the child's brain will develop and percieve things in the future. this book looks at the increasing rate of young people that are committing horrific crimes, and looks at why this is happening, looking at these people's childhoods specifically. the things i didn't like about this book are the studies of animals that she uses to make her points, as well as the lack of cultural differences that are important to consider. i'm still processing a lot about this book, and it was sometimes hard to read because of my own childhood. now, i have to write a paper about it for my final!"
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