RT Article
T1 The role of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and psychopathic features on juvenile offending criminal careers to age 18
JF Youth violence and juvenile justice
VO 18
IS 4
SP 337
OP 364
A1 Baglivio, Michael T.
A2 Wolff, Kevin T.
A2 DeLisi, Matt
A2 Jackowski, Katherine
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1816613916
AB Childhood maltreatment and inept parental disciplinary, attachment, and monitoring practices evidence a relationship with early and severe childhood and adolescent aggression and have figured prominently as causative factors in theoretical and empirical underpinnings of lifelong antisocial behavior. Abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction have been linked to both violent offending and higher scores on measures of dispositional tendencies associated with psychopathy. The current study incorporates these lines of research by examining a potential pathway by which cumulative adverse childhood experience exposure, rather than single exposures assessed independently, leads to chronic and serious juvenile offending. Specifically, we leverage a sample of 64,007 juvenile offenders who have aged out of the juvenile justice system to examine the extent to which the effects of traumatic exposure on age of onset (first arrest) as well as residential placement, total offenses, and serious, violent, and chronic offending up to age 18 are each mediated by psychopathic features. Results demonstrate that a substantial portion (37%–93%) of the effects of cumulative traumatic exposure on justice system outcomes is indirect, operating through these features, even after controlling for demographic and other criminogenic risk factors. Juvenile justice policy implications are discussed.
NO First published 26 May, 2020
K1 Adverse Childhood Experiences
K1 traumatic exposure
K1 Juvenile offending
K1 adolescent psychopathic features
DO 10.1177/1541204020927075