Does childhood victimization predict specific adolescent offending? An analysis of generality versus specificity in the victim-offender overlap

Trauma, Psychopathy, and Antisocial Outcomes Among Community Youth: Distinguishing Trauma Events From Trauma Reactions

“…Some studies found that trauma increases psychopathy among boys but not girls (Barker & Meehan, 2019; Krischer & Sevecke, 2008; Lansing et al, 2018; Sevecke et al, 2016); while other research found that trauma exposures manifest in different types of delinquency among white, black, or Hispanic youth in the United States (Bonner et al, 2020; DeLisi et al, 2017; Zettler, et al, 2018). This suggests that criminogenic effects of trauma exposure are unevenly felt across demographic statuses, and that individual forms of trauma can result in generalized greater likelihood of delinquency or reflect a more specialized relation between a trauma and offending, as in the case of sexual abuse and sexual offending (Bonner et al, 2020; Miley et al, 2020).…”

“…Generally, more extensive and severe psychopathic features translate into more extensive and severe conduct problems. Similarly, traumatic experiences including disparate forms of abuse, neglect, and adversity are also related to delinquency, victimization experiences, lower behavioral functioning, and justice system interventions among youth (Bonner et al, 2020; Braga et al, 2017; Craig et al, 2019; Duke et al, 2010; Fox et al, 2015; Miley et al, 2020; Muniz et al, 2019; Trulson et al, 2016; Xie et al, 2020). Similar to the broad-based effects of psychopathy, more extensive and severe trauma usually translates into more extensive and severe conduct problems.…”

The Role of Low Self-Control as a Mediator between Trauma and Antisociality/Criminality in Youth

“…Several important findings emanate from the criminological study of traumatic experiences among youth. Childhood trauma has broad, generalized effects whereby adverse experiences are associated with increased conduct problems [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ] and localized effects where specific forms of abuse manifest in analogous variants of delinquency, for instance, sexual abuse manifesting as sexual aggression [ 7 , 9 , 11 ]. Thus, childhood trauma has multifaceted and seemingly idiosyncratic effects on youth development.…”

The dark figure of sexual offending: A replication and extension

“…These are sobering data for multiple reasons. There is a huge amount of evidence that sexual victimization is associated with subsequent internalizing disorders (Aday, Dye, & Kaiser, 2014;Kennedy & Prock, 2018;Turner, Finkelhor, & Ormrod, 2010), externalizing disorders (Miley, Fox, Muniz, Perkins, & DeLisi, 2020;Renner, Boel-Studt, & Whitney, 2018), impaired socioeconomic and social functioning (Hochstetler, DeLisi, Jones-Johnson, & Johnson, 2014;Kennedy & Prock, 2018), increased overall psychopathology (Najdowski & Ullman, 2009;Romano & De Luca, 2001), suicidal thoughts and behaviors (Aday et al, 2014), and, among males, becoming a sexual offender -567 (DeLisi & Beauregard, 2018;Drury, Elbert, & DeLisi, 2019;DeLisi, Kosloski, Vaughn, Caudill, & Trulson, 2014;Miley et al, 2020). Thus these victimizations are devastating to the victim and set into motion multiple, interrelated, immediate and long-term negative consequences.…”