Forensic Psychologist: Study links childhood trauma and adult aggression

"Why the link between abuse and aggression?

"Cumulative experiences of abuse and neglect disrupt both a child's ability to form secure attachments to others and his ability to regulate his emotions, the researchers posit. Thus, men abused as youngsters tend to either avoid intimacy altogether or are at risk to become violent in intimate relationships, due to a "bleeding out" of their suppressed inner rage.

"Not only must treatment of offenders focus on healing their "neurobiological" wounds, the researchers  say, but the findings also point to the need for  more early childhood interventions to stop child abuse before its victims grow up to victimize others...."

http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/study-links-childhood-trauma-and-adult.html