Early Anxiety Detection Could Reduce Juvenile Crime, Psychologists Say

In the juvenile homes of Hyderabad, psychiatrists are tracing the arc from unnoticed childhood anxiety to irreversible harm — and finding that the distance between the two is shorter, and more preventable, than most families imagine. The children inside these walls are not anomalies; they are, in many cases, the product of small, accumulated silences: a parent who didn't notice, a peer group that filled the void, a mind that never learned to hold shame without breaking. Telangana's 1,151 juvenile apprehensions in 2023 are not merely a crime statistic — they are a measure of how many early warn