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B Zeiller

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PubMed1982

[Physical and psychological abuse: follow-up of abused and delinquent adolescents].

Physical and Psychological Abuse: A Follow-up of Abused Delinquent Adolescents. This is a follow-up study of abused, very aggressive adolescent boys who had to be placed in an institution. A group of 252 boys were admitted between 1950 and 1977 in a limited freedom institution near Paris (France) because of delinquency or very difficult behaviour. Thirty-three of them had been abused either in their family or in other institutions during childhood. These adolescents proved to be three times more aggressive (i.e., they were involved in aggression episodes three times more often) as compared with their schoolmates who had not been abused previously. An inquiry about the subsequent life course of 22 of these 33 adolescents, made 3 to 30 years following their discharge, revealed that officially unlawful behaviour was recorded twice as often as in the life of their peers. The abused aggressive adolescents are therefore more difficult to rehabilitate than other non-abused adolescent with difficult behaviour. The author stresses this difference, which seems to be linked with a strong feeling of abandonment, and with an extreme difficulty to establish affective contacts with adults. The relationship with adults is always very fragile, and requires a large amount of tolerance regarding their aggressive behaviour.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

[Physical and psychological brutality: the evolution of a judiciary record amongst abused and delinquent adolescents (author's transl)].

We studied the evolution of a judiciary record among abused and delinquent adolescents in a population of 252 boys placed during the period 1950-1977 in a supervised center in the Paris area. During late childhood or early adolescence 33 of these boys were abused by their families of within institutional environments. The subsequent history of the first 22 demonstrates a more frequent recurrence of delinquency during adulthood. The rate of recidivism is twice that for the other adolescents in the study population. There are at least two possible explanations: firstly, starting at adolescence, these subjects exhibited more aggressive behavior and there are problems created by the intolerance of this behavior; secondly, the premature interruption of bonds contracted with the team of educators is a barrier to necessary care that engenders difficulties in the psycho-and socio-therapeutic management of these boys.

Adolescent↗