Abstract
A Critical Viewpoint About the Legal Analysis of the Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Spanish Criminal Justice System
Highlights
This paper focuses its aim in the explanation on the link between the Hyperactivity Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) and the future criminal career by the analysis of how Spanish Courts understand this disorder
Regarding to this last point, the hyperactive and impulsive signs define the most ADHD subtype related to behavioral problems, being the external symptomatology the main cause of clinical comorbidity
If we know that 50% of children and adolescents with ADHD will continue to have ADHD as adults and that ADHD may persist throughout the lifespan [7], we should add that only a minimum of this percentage will develop antisocial behaviors and criminal trajectories in the future
Summary
A Critical Viewpoint About the Legal Analysis of the Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Spanish Criminal Justice System. Received Date: 30 June, 2017; Accepted Date: 02 August, 2017; Published Date: 26 August, 2017
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