RT Article
T1 Early adverse childhood experiences and later delinquency: considering the role of middle childhood risk factors
JF Deviant behavior
VO 45
IS 6
SP 911
OP 927
A1 Reese, Braden
A1 Pierce, Hayley
A1 Jones, Melissa
A2 Pierce, Hayley
A2 Jones, Melissa
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/189118346X
AB Evidence suggests that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with adolescent and adult delinquency. Simultaneously, studies have identified an association between middle childhood risk factors and subsequent delinquency. However, the research on how the relationship between early ACEs and adolescent delinquency is affected by middle childhood risk factors for delinquency is sparse. The current study addresses this, and other important gaps in existing ACE literature by using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS; n = 3,444), a national urban birth cohort, to analyze how different levels of exposure to early ACEs (by age five) are associated with delinquency and to explore how multiple middle childhood risk factors (low self-control, prior delinquency, material hardship, experiences with bullying, and more recent ACE exposure) might mediate these processes. Findings suggest that two or more ACEs is significantly associated with increased rates of adolescent delinquency and that the association grows stronger as ACEs accumulate. Further, later ACEs, low self-control and prior delinquency mediate some of this relationship.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 924-927
K1 Kriminalität
K1 Kindheit
K1 Risikofaktor
K1 Kriminologie
K1 Empirische Forschung
DO 10.1080/01639625.2023.2268254