The Childhood to Prison Pipeline: Early Childhood Trauma as Reported by a Prison Population

Stensrud, Robert; Gilbride, Dennis D.; Bruinekool, Robert M.

doi:10.1177/0034355218774844

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“…Increase in behavioral problems among victims during the COVID-19 pandemic is similar to other published data, as parental stress and pressure can cause children to have less patience. Furthermore, the children and adolescents who experience trauma are more likely to exhibit behavioral issues ( Stensrud et al, 2018 ).…”

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Evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of maltreatment cases to the National Family Safety Program in Saudi Arabia

Alenezi

Alnamnakani

Temsah

et al. 2021

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic represents a global and nationwide public health crisis. Although protective, socially restrictive measures may cause social isolation, which amounts to an increased ecological risk for mental health disturbance in vulnerable populations. Previous reports have suggested a significant association between the occurrence of public health crises and increased rates of multiple risk factors related to child mental health disturbances, domestic violence, and child-maltreatment. Methodology We conducted a retrospective data review of reported child maltreatment cases from the National Family Safety Program during the period of September 2019 to September 2020. A descriptive analysis approach was used to compare rates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results During COVID-19, abuse was significantly more reported by a family member than by the victims themselves or by a healthcare worker. However, before COVID-19, the offender was less often reported to be known to the victim; was both parents or the mother but was more often described as male, older, single, less educated; and currently unemployed with no significant change observed in their health status ( p < 0.001). Interestingly, the predicted type of abuse also significantly differed and was more emotional or sexual than other types (p < 0.001). Conclusion The types of abuse and the characteristics of both abused children and offenders saw significant changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sexual and emotional abuses were reported more frequently, and the male gender is considered to feature more commonly in reports prior to the pandemic era than during the pandemic.

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Evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of maltreatment cases to the National Family Safety Program in Saudi Arabia

Alenezi

Alnamnakani

Temsah

et al. 2021

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…It is a validated instrument for assessing adverse experiences that has demonstrated an increased risk of multiple negative health outcomes, based on the measured ACEs (Dube, Williamson, Thompson, Felitti, & Anda, , Felitti et al, ). The measure has also been used with incarcerated populations (Stensrud, Gilbride, & Bruinekool, ). Participants were given this questionnaire to better understand the demographic profile of the sample and to capture information about all adverse experiences of participants, including those experiences that they did not identify as relating to their incarceration.…”

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Adverse experiences, mental health, and substance use disorders as social determinants of incarceration

Henry

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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This study describes how incarcerated people understand: (a) Adverse experiences, mental health, and substance use disorders as determinants of incarceration, (b) the role of gender in impacting this understanding, and (c) strategies to prevent incarceration. Ecosocial theory provides a theoretical framework. Open‐ended interviews were conducted (December 2016–January 2017) with recently incarcerated adults in Massachusetts state prisons. Participants described determinants of incarceration and incarceration prevention strategies. Interviews were coded thematically using inductive and deductive approaches. Thirty participants, evenly split by gender, reported themes across four levels: Society (lacking basic needs, discrimination), community (neighborhood factors), interpersonal (trauma), and individual (social isolation, mental health, substance use). However, there were variations in themes by gender. Proposed prevention strategies included early access to quality individualized cross‐system services. In conclusion, findings highlight how investing in social and community building services could prevent incarceration. Policies can support these services by redirecting funding.

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“…The dichotomy of the antisocial motivation of criminal offenders and the prosocial inducement of men in dangerous professions might be in line with one of the fundamental LH assumptions, according to which different LH strategies are developed in response to the level of harshness and unpredictability experienced in childhood. In the field of criminology, adverse childhood experiences are well-established factors underlying criminal activities (Fox et al 2015 ; Stensrud et al 2018 ). Offenders with childhood exposure to stress (Whitten et al 2019 ), physical and emotional abuse (Baglivio et al 2014 ), or neglect (McGuigan et al 2018 ) can be perceived as having grown up without social support and values of prosociality, trust, and empathy.…”

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Do Criminals Live Faster Than Soldiers and Firefighters?

Kwiek

Piotrowski

2020

Hum Nat

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A high risk of morbidity-mortality caused by a harsh and unpredictable environment is considered to be associated with a fast life history (LH) strategy, commonly linked with criminal behavior. However, offenders are not the only group with a high exposure to extrinsic morbidity-mortality. In the present study, we investigated the LH strategies employed by two groups of Polish men: incarcerated offenders (N = 84) as well as soldiers and firefighters (N = 117), whose professions involve an elevated risk of injury and premature death. The subjects were asked to complete the Mini-K (used as a psychosocial LH indicator) and a questionnaire which included a number of biodemographic LH variables. Although biodemographic and psychosocial LH indicators should be closely linked with each other, the actual connection between them is unclear. Thus, this study was driven by two aims: comparing LH strategies in two groups of men with a high risk of premature morbidity-mortality and investigating the relationship between the biodemographic and psychosocial LH dimensions. The study showed that incarcerated men employed faster LH strategies than soldiers and firefighters, but only in relation to biodemographic variables (e.g., number of siblings, age of sexual initiation, life expectancy). No intergroup differences emerged regarding psychosocial LH indicators. Moreover, the correlation analysis showed a weak association between biodemographic and psychosocial LH indicators. The results strengthen the legitimacy of incorporating biodemographic LH traits into research models and indicate the need for further research on the accuracy of the Mini-K. The possible explanations for the intergroup differences in LH strategies are discussed.

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The Childhood to Prison Pipeline: Early Childhood Trauma as Reported by a Prison Population

Cited by 46 publications

References 32 publications

Evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of maltreatment cases to the National Family Safety Program in Saudi Arabia

Evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of maltreatment cases to the National Family Safety Program in Saudi Arabia

Adverse experiences, mental health, and substance use disorders as social determinants of incarceration

Do Criminals Live Faster Than Soldiers and Firefighters?

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