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Identifying Criminal Capacity in Children with Forensic Psychology

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Criminality can often be linked back to an offender’s childhood. A child who exhibits three or more of the following behaviours is at risk of becoming seriously anti-social as an adult:

Habitual lying
Cruelty to animals
Cruelty to people, especially vulnerable people
Breaking into buildings or cars
Destroying property, that of their own or others
Deliberate fire-setting
Running away from home overnight more than once
Stealing more than once
Frequent truancy

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David Canter, the world-leading crime psychologist, is perhaps most widely known as one of the pioneers of 'Offender Profiling', being the first to introduce its use to the UK. He subsequently founded the discipline of Investigative Psychology and is now Director of the International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology.

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