The Relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Juvenile Offending Trajectories in a Juvenile Offender Sample

Baglivio, Michael T.; Wolff, Kevin T.; Piquero, Alexis R; Epps, Nathan

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.04.012

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“…Not surprisingly, many researchers have examined the lifecourse effects of childhood adversity using the ACE assessment. These studies have demonstrated that higher ACE scores have been linked to a variety of dangerous or deviant behaviors, such as smoking (Anda et al 1999), alcoholism (Dong et al 2005), obesity (Burke et al 2011), mental illness (Chapman et al 2007;Felitti and Anda 2010), depression (Dube et al 2003), risky sexual behavior (Hillis et al 2001), offending (Baglivio et al 2014;Baglivio et al 2015), adolescent pregnancy (Hillis et al 2004), and homelessness (Herman et al 1997). In addition, higher ACE scores have also been shown to directly predict an individual's likelihood of suicidal behavior (Dube et al 2001).…”

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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Suicide Attempts: The Mediating Influence of Personality Development and Problem Behaviors

Perez

Jennings

Piquero

et al. 2016

J Youth Adolescence

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Adverse childhood experiences, comprised of forms of maltreatment and certain dysfunctional household environments, can affect the development of a child in a variety of different ways. This multitude of developmental changes may subsequently produce compounding harmful effects on the child's life and increase acutely maladaptive outcomes, including adolescent suicidal behavior. This study uses data collected from 2007 to 2012 for 64,329 Florida Department of Juvenile Justice youth (21.67 % female, 42.88 % African American, and 15.37 % Hispanic) to examine the direct and indirect effects of adverse childhood experiences on suicide attempts. Using a generalized structural equation model, the effects of adverse childhood experience scores are estimated on suicidal behavior through pathways of certain aspects of a child's personality development (aggression and impulsivity), as well as adolescent problem behaviors (school difficulties and substance abuse). The results show that a large proportion of the relationship between childhood adversity and suicide is mediated by the aforementioned individual characteristics, specifically through the youth's maladaptive personality development. These results suggest that, if identified early enough, the developmental issues for these youth could potentially be addressed in order to thwart potential suicidal behavior.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Suicide Attempts: The Mediating Influence of Personality Development and Problem Behaviors

Perez

Jennings

Piquero

et al. 2016

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Importantly, most of the studies examining CWS-JJS transitions have utilized retrospective designs (Baglivio et al, 2015; Haight, Bidwell, Choi, & Cho, 2016; Ryan et al, 2013), which do not capture the critical period when a child first transitions from the CWS and becomes involved in the JJS. Literature has shown that the onset age of offending is among the strongest predictors of long-term and continuous delinquent behavior (Gann et al, 2015).…”

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“…More commonly referred to as crossover youth (Herz et al, 2012), these children and adolescents are a high risk and vulnerable population with complex needs, likely because of their experience of multiple adversities and trauma (Baglivio et al, 2015; Herz, Ryan, & Bilchik, 2010). For example, maltreatment, including neglect, and physical, sexual, and other types of abuse, is among the most common risk factors associated with service systems crossover (Herz et al, 2012; Mersky, Topitzes, & Reynolds, 2012).…”

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Maltreatment, family environment, and social risk factors: Determinants of the child welfare to juvenile justice transition among maltreated children and adolescents

Vidal

Prince

Connell

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Child Abuse & Neglect

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This study prospectively examines the transition from the child welfare system into the juvenile justice system among 10,850 maltreated children and adolescents and explores how patterns of risks, including severity and chronicity of maltreatment, adverse family environment, and social risk factors, affect service systems transition. Almost three percent of maltreated children and adolescents had their first juvenile justice adjudication within an average of approximately six years of their initial child protective services investigation (CPS). Social risk factors, including a child’s age at index CPS investigation (older), gender (boys), and race/ethnicity (Black and Hispanic vs. White) significantly predicted the risk of transition into the juvenile justice system. Recurrence of maltreatment and experiencing at least one incident of neglect over the course of the study period also increased the risk of transition into the juvenile justice system. However, subtypes of maltreatment, including physical, sexual, and other types of abuse did not significantly predict the risk of juvenile justice system transition. Finally, family environment characterized by poverty also significantly increased the risk of juvenile justice system transition. These findings have important implications for developing and tailoring services for maltreated children, particularly those at-risk for transitioning into the juvenile justice system.

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“…For instance, Fox and colleagues [12] reported that each additional adverse childhood experience increased the likelihood of serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offending by 35%. Others have similarly found that adverse childhood experiences were linked to more severe offending trajectories, earlier onset of antisocial conduct, and shorter time to recidivism post-juvenile justice services [13,14]. For instance, Boduszek and colleagues [15] found that male prisoners in Poland who had been exposed to family violence were approximately six times more likely to perpetrate a homicide than offenders who lacked violence exposure.…”

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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific?

DeLisi

Alcala

Kusow

et al. 2017

IJERPH

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Adverse childhood experiences are associated with an array of health, psychiatric, and behavioral problems including antisocial behavior. Criminologists have recently utilized adverse childhood experiences as an organizing research framework and shown that adverse childhood experiences are associated with delinquency, violence, and more chronic/severe criminal careers. However, much less is known about adverse childhood experiences vis-à-vis specific forms of crime and whether the effects vary across race and ethnicity. Using a sample of 2520 male confined juvenile delinquents, the current study used epidemiological tables of odds (both unadjusted and adjusted for onset, total adjudications, and total out of home placements) to evaluate the significance of the number of adverse childhood experiences on commitment for homicide, sexual assault, and serious persons/property offending. The effects of adverse childhood experiences vary considerably across racial and ethnic groups and across offense types. Adverse childhood experiences are strongly and positively associated with sexual offending, but negatively associated with homicide and serious person/property offending. Differential effects of adverse childhood experiences were also seen among African Americans, Hispanics, and whites. Suggestions for future research to clarify the mechanisms by which adverse childhood experiences manifest in specific forms of criminal behavior are offered.

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The Relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Juvenile Offending Trajectories in a Juvenile Offender Sample

Cited by 301 publications

References 79 publications

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Suicide Attempts: The Mediating Influence of Personality Development and Problem Behaviors

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Suicide Attempts: The Mediating Influence of Personality Development and Problem Behaviors

Maltreatment, family environment, and social risk factors: Determinants of the child welfare to juvenile justice transition among maltreated children and adolescents

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific?

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