Journal de psychologie légale

Abstrait

A Correlation Study on Individual Delinquency Factors Incentivised by an Abominable Juvenescence

Poorva Ovhal , Bhagyashree Kulkarni

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder constitutes to a psychiatric condition which is recognized to be as a significant disorder that distorts children’s ability to function. Their developmental patterns show inappropriate levels of inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. These sudden involuntary urges of impulsivity lead to certain wrong doings in the behavioural aspects lead to severe or non-bailable delinquencies among the juveniles. Therefore, to explain the contribution of ADHD with juvenile delinquency, the current study is a pilot research work based on case study method. The methodology includes a collection of case studies of individuals whose urge and mental stimulation towards delinquency was a product of AADHD diagnosis. Various literature work was considered to study various aspects of ADHD and the traits affecting the personality. To support the hypothesis, an in depth analysis of case studies from around numerous reports was done. The current research paper consists of six case studies which throws light on several areas of criminal offences and delinquencies caused by ADHD. These case studies hence inferred that the subjects who had their ADHD undiagnosed or untreated, or weren’t consistent with their medicines, showed higher levels of aggression, impulsiveness, hyperactivity, and thereby resulted in committing crime as an alternative response in the search of calamity. The research also highlights the association of ADHD along with other learning, psychological, or psychiatric disorders, thereby fuelling the impulse. The hyperactivity, thus causing a rebellious response, might end up an individual’s divulgence into substance and alcohol abuse.

It was therefore inferred that lack of awareness, failure in diagnosis, lack of proper instrumentation and psychological tests, unavailability of right medication, and an involuntary low tolerance level towards external stimulus and bearing out the uncertain and abstract pain leads the research of this correlative study between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Juvenile delinquency.