National Study of Childhood Traumatic Events and Adolescent and Adulthood Criminal Justice Involvement Risk: Evaluating the Protective Role of Social Support from Mentors During Adolescence

摘要

Objective:With nearly 11 million people in the United States arrested in 2015, the need to identify antecedent risk factors driving criminal justice involvement (CJI) and possible mitigating factors is crucial. This study examines the relation between childhood trauma and CJI in adolescence and adulthood and assesses how this relation is moderated by mentoring during young adulthood.