Must Read: Tired Teens Has Greater Tendency To Commit Crimes Compared To Those Who Are Well Rested? Find Out More Here!

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Tired teens with daytime drowsiness are prone to commit criminal activities. A new study reveals that they execute five times more crimes as adults.

Mail online reported that insufficient amount of sleep lead teenagers to perform criminal activities. The youths who feel drowsy in the mid afternoon execute antisocial behavior like lying, fighting, cheating. These tired teens can commit violent crimes in future.

The university of Pennsylvania and the University of York jointly conducted this study. Professor Adrian Raine from the University of Pennsylvania says that the research unveils daytime sleepiness of the tired teens relates to the criminal activities. Professor Raine collected this data 40 years earlier and now he began to analyze it.

Professor Adrian Raine and Professor Peter Venables at the University of York jointly tested fifteen-year-old 101 boys. All the boys belong to the three separate secondary schools in England. Their aim was to measure the sleepiness to explore the physical condition of the tired teens.

The 101 boys heard a tone in the headphones and this helped to measure the attention of the boys. The attention indicates the brain-wave activity of those teens. To make a clear report on tired teens, both the professors collected data of anti-social behavior of those 101 school boys.

Wiley Online Library reported the whole fact in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. The report on the tired teens includes self-confession of some boys and sometimes teachers also provided information about the study participants. The best part of this study is the reports from the boys and from the teachers beautifully correlate in the study.

Professor Adrian Raine also collected reports from the Central Criminal Records Office in London. He tried to know which participants had the criminal records at the age of 29 among the 101 participants. The collected report was helpful to understand the background of the tired teens.

The complete study on tired teens found that 17 percent of the participants committed criminal activities. Poor socioeconomic status is also responsible for that. Poor social class and adversity in social status together bring the daytime drowsiness that creates brain dysfunction.

The dysfunction finally motivates the tired teens to commit crime 14 years later. Professor Adrian Raine opines that there can be a different explanation. He says that daytime drowsiness means poor attention or poor brain function, which relates to criminal mentality.

Sufficient amount of sleep at night is the best way to avoid this problem. Tired teens don't always tend to execute criminal offenses as there are some additional factors also. In a word, the brain needs rest like other organs and sound sleep can provide that rest and helps teens avoid poor attention problem.

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