Abstract:

Childhood experiences can contain many life events that individuals can carry in the following years, and these life events can be positive as well as include traumatic experiences. Childhood trauma experiences can have lifelong experiences that can affect the emotional, cognitive, physical, behavioral and social development of children who have not reached the age of 18. Childhood traumas can bring stress, cause a significant increase in psychological symptoms in adulthood, and also pave the way for the formation of adult delinquency. Made works; It reveals that individuals who tend to criminal behavior have a problematic family history and this shows us how important the childhood period is in the development of criminality. Therefore, since childhood traumas are thought to lead the individual to behaviors that can be considered criminal, this study aims to examine the relationship between adult guilt and childhood traumas.

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