Childhood Agression

Introduction There are various theories on possible causes for childhood aggression, however it is a little more taxing to try and pinpoint a specific correlation with childhood aggression and murder. Originally, early psychological theories struggled with where aggression originated, whether it can be an instinctual force, biological force, or the result of society and survival. Initial beliefs varied from freus’s belief that " Aggression was the primary response to the thwarting of pleasure seeking or …

…too high a degree they commit an aggressive act. "One can undoubtedly identify some distinguishing characteristics among persons differin in aggressive patterns, but they may have limited value in predicting homicidal behavior in individual cases". This is because most of the acts that aggressive criminals commit entail peculiar circumstances and do not resemble patterns of other violent murders making it difficult to make a valid connection between types of aggressors and the potential to murder.