CCJ 4934 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Low Birth Weight, Binge Drinking

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Criminology
• Course: CCJ 4934
• Professor: Chris L Gibson

Document Summary

Learn language: develop a personality, establish behavioral pattern, develop strong emotional bonds and attachment. Pre and perinatal factors (increasing risk factors for early criminal behavior) Factors that impact fetal and early childhood development: maternal cigarette smoking, maternal alcohol use, lead exposure, low birth weight. Cigarette smoking and alcohol use can be hard to distinguish sometimes. Not general risk factors for offending- related to specific style or pattern of offending (one dimension is early criminal behavior or police contact) Lack of edcuation/understanding of consequences to child: varies by state. Identified in 1970: damage unborn children suffer due to mothers drinking alcohol during pregnancy, alcohol in mothers blood toxic to developing fetus. 5-2/1000 births: binge drinking during first 12 weeks and amount of drinks influences. Effects of alcohol use: clumsiness, behavioral problems. Inattentiveness: poor judgement and capacity to learn from experience, brain dysfunction, growth defects and facial anomalies. Ann streister from university of washington medical school.