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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 25 2017, @08:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the seems-like-a-reach dept.

Teenagers who self-report feeling drowsy mid-afternoon also tend to exhibit more anti-social behavior such as lying, cheating, stealing and fighting. Now, research from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of York, in the United Kingdom, shows that those same teens are 4.5 times more likely to commit violent crimes a decade and a half later.

"It's the first study to our knowledge to show that daytime sleepiness during teenage years are associated with criminal offending 14 years later," said Adrian Raine, the Richard Perry University Professor with appointments in the departments of Criminology and Psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Psychiatry in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine.

He and Peter Venables, an emeritus psychology professor at the University of York, published their findings in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry .

Raine had collected the data for this work 39 years earlier, as part of his Ph.D. research (studying under Venables) but had never analyzed it. Recently, he began noticing cross-sectional studies, those that analyze multiple behaviors at a single point in time, connecting sleep and behavioral problems in children. He dug out his old dissertation work to look for a link between these and illegal behavior in adulthood.

Adrian Raine, Peter H. Venables Adolescent daytime sleepiness as a risk factor for adult crime Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12693


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 25 2017, @08:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 25 2017, @08:33PM (#471603)

    Being excessively sleepy without an obvious medical cause is a sign of depression, which probably correlates with a bunch of other mental disorders to include antisocial behavior.

    In the case of antisocial behavioural disorder, it is theorised by many professionals that complex post traumatic stress disorder and increased testosterone production both play a role. Depression and cPTSD could both be by-products of perceived abuse. Do you have any antidotes or personal observations on this?

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 25 2017, @08:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 25 2017, @08:51PM (#471610)

    Do you have any antidotes or personal observations on this?

    No, but I do have some antipodes and anecdotes, and an armadillo. Will any of these do?