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A study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry (Brennan, Grekin & Mednick, 1999) found that babies of mothers who smoke are at higher risk for criminal behavior in adulthood than babies of mothers who do not smoke. The researchers examined the arrest histories for over 4,000 34 year old men. The number of cigarettes their mothers smoked while pregnant was related to the probability that the men were later arrested for violent and non-violent crimes. List 3 possible explanations that could account for this correlation.
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1. Smoking behavior reflects a lack of concern for self as the smoker continues smoking in spite of the dangers to health. A mother who does not care for her health, would also not care for her babies health. This would ...
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