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Former FBI man John Douglas on violent childhoods impacting adult behavior: "What always is a debate, is it nature or nurture"
As more information on the Ohio kidnapping investigation comes to light – in particular facts related to a history of violence and abuse directed at Ariel Castro's family – on Thursday "Piers Morgan Live" invited John Douglas to offer his professional perspective.
The former chief of the FBI's Behavioral Science unit, Douglas discussed the role such an upbringing might play in the adult future of those raised within an abusive environment:
"What always is a debate, is it a nature or nurture thing?" he noted. "I can say from the people who I have interviewed, on death row or in prisons around the country, most of them will have some type of violence, psychological, physical violence, sexual violence in the background."
The man who served as the inspiration for the character of Jack Crawford in the well-known "Silence of the Lamb" film, Douglas was careful to avoid holding one's childhood entirely responsible for later behavior:
"However, I'm kind of tough on this because I still don't believe it should be a mitigating factor," he told Piers Morgan. "They still have the ability to make choices and [use] free will and they're making these choices and it's the wrong choices."
Watch the clip, and listen to the interview, as the guest and host further discuss how a history of violence and abuse in a family impacts the children who grow up under such circumstances.
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In my opinion, a damaged soul does not have free will. Just a skewed version of life. I am supposed to say that they can always make choices – that is the popular prospective but I don't join the masses in their thinking or more accurately, non-thinking.
They just plough their own furrow of crime,Norma,and you sound rather misanthropic though.
WE are the masses,and we must love them according to Killing Joke. ['Love Of The Masses']
Was he a Moslim?
Who?
A violent home definitelƴ lmpacts negetivelƴ on a person's life and future behavor therefore, families should be careful and avoid violence . This will help nurture positive behavor families and the sociaty.
Good point,Adi,thanks for posting.
Weapon used:Bushmaster XM 15-E2S,butt at 5-o'-clock to remove shards of glass at front door as captured on video.
Rounds fired:(hollow point:154;14 to shoot lock,remainder pumped into children point blank range).
Damage: 20 dead infants [19 US;1 UK],bones turned to dust,in medical parlance 'snowstorms',faces peeling away in
deliberate attempt to shear them off in two cases,one child[boy]holding his chin in shock as he died.
6 adults [female].
Mendacity/slander:haphazardly on this blog and others.
Status:forsaken soon to be forgotten and filed with all the others
Prayer: for them and The United States Of America once they've finished pi$$ing on their graves.