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Bowlby studied 44 adolescent thieves and a control group of 44 children with emotional problems but no criminal behavior. He found that over half of the thieves had been separated from their mothers for over six months as children, compared to only two in the control group. Bowlby concluded that the anti-social behavior of the thieves was due to maternal deprivation disrupting the attachment bond in early childhood. However, critics argue that Bowlby

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