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Parents’ Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Offspring Involvement With the Criminal Legal System

IMPORTANCE: Intergenerational cycles of adversity likely increase one’s risk of criminal legal system involvement, yet associations with potential contributors, such as parents’ adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and positive childhood experiences (PCEs), have not been explored. OBJECTIVE: To inve...

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Autores principales: Barnert, Elizabeth S., Schlichte, Lindsay M., Tolliver, Destiny G., La Charite, Jaime, Biely, Christopher, Dudovitz, Rebecca, Leifheit, Kathryn, Russ, Shirley, Sastry, Narayan, Yama, Cecile, Slavich, George M., Schickedanz, Adam
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Publicado: American Medical Association 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10600584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37878312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.39648
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author Barnert, Elizabeth S.
Schlichte, Lindsay M.
Tolliver, Destiny G.
La Charite, Jaime
Biely, Christopher
Dudovitz, Rebecca
Leifheit, Kathryn
Russ, Shirley
Sastry, Narayan
Yama, Cecile
Slavich, George M.
Schickedanz, Adam
author_facet Barnert, Elizabeth S.
Schlichte, Lindsay M.
Tolliver, Destiny G.
La Charite, Jaime
Biely, Christopher
Dudovitz, Rebecca
Leifheit, Kathryn
Russ, Shirley
Sastry, Narayan
Yama, Cecile
Slavich, George M.
Schickedanz, Adam
author_sort Barnert, Elizabeth S.
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description IMPORTANCE: Intergenerational cycles of adversity likely increase one’s risk of criminal legal system involvement, yet associations with potential contributors, such as parents’ adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and positive childhood experiences (PCEs), have not been explored. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of parents’ ACEs and PCEs with their adult children’s involvement in US legal systems, from arrest to conviction. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: The study team analyzed data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), a nationally representative cohort study of families in the US. PSID-2013 survey data were merged with the 2014 PSID Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study (CRCS), collected May 2014 to January 2015, which asked adults aged 18 to 97 years to retrospectively report on their childhood experiences. Parents and their adult children were linked in the data set. Data were analyzed from October 2022 to September 2023. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: The child arrest outcome was regressed on parents’ ACE and PCE scores using logistic regression models. In addition, multinomial logistic regression models were used to assess the associations of parents’ ACE and PCE scores with the number of times their child was arrested and convicted. RESULTS: Of 12 985 eligible individuals, 8072 completed the CRCS. Among CRCS participants, there were 1854 eligible parent-child dyads (ie, parents and their adult children) that formed the analytic sample. The mean (SD) age of offspring at the time of CRCS completion was 38.5 (10.9) years, and 1076 offspring (51.3%) were female. Having 4 or more parental ACEs was associated with 1.91-fold (95% CI, 1.14-3.22) higher adjusted odds of arrest before age 26 and 3.22-fold (95% CI, 1.62-6.40) higher adjusted odds of conviction before age 26 years, compared with children of parents without ACEs. These associations persisted after controlling for parental PCEs. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this nationally representative study, children of parents with higher ACEs were at greater risk of arrest during adolescence and young adulthood, even after controlling for parents’ PCEs. Addressing and preventing childhood adversity through multigenerational life course approaches may help disrupt intergenerational pathways to the criminal legal system.
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spelling pubmed-106005842023-10-27 Parents’ Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Offspring Involvement With the Criminal Legal System Barnert, Elizabeth S. Schlichte, Lindsay M. Tolliver, Destiny G. La Charite, Jaime Biely, Christopher Dudovitz, Rebecca Leifheit, Kathryn Russ, Shirley Sastry, Narayan Yama, Cecile Slavich, George M. Schickedanz, Adam JAMA Netw Open Original Investigation IMPORTANCE: Intergenerational cycles of adversity likely increase one’s risk of criminal legal system involvement, yet associations with potential contributors, such as parents’ adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and positive childhood experiences (PCEs), have not been explored. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of parents’ ACEs and PCEs with their adult children’s involvement in US legal systems, from arrest to conviction. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: The study team analyzed data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), a nationally representative cohort study of families in the US. PSID-2013 survey data were merged with the 2014 PSID Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study (CRCS), collected May 2014 to January 2015, which asked adults aged 18 to 97 years to retrospectively report on their childhood experiences. Parents and their adult children were linked in the data set. Data were analyzed from October 2022 to September 2023. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: The child arrest outcome was regressed on parents’ ACE and PCE scores using logistic regression models. In addition, multinomial logistic regression models were used to assess the associations of parents’ ACE and PCE scores with the number of times their child was arrested and convicted. RESULTS: Of 12 985 eligible individuals, 8072 completed the CRCS. Among CRCS participants, there were 1854 eligible parent-child dyads (ie, parents and their adult children) that formed the analytic sample. The mean (SD) age of offspring at the time of CRCS completion was 38.5 (10.9) years, and 1076 offspring (51.3%) were female. Having 4 or more parental ACEs was associated with 1.91-fold (95% CI, 1.14-3.22) higher adjusted odds of arrest before age 26 and 3.22-fold (95% CI, 1.62-6.40) higher adjusted odds of conviction before age 26 years, compared with children of parents without ACEs. These associations persisted after controlling for parental PCEs. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this nationally representative study, children of parents with higher ACEs were at greater risk of arrest during adolescence and young adulthood, even after controlling for parents’ PCEs. Addressing and preventing childhood adversity through multigenerational life course approaches may help disrupt intergenerational pathways to the criminal legal system. American Medical Association 2023-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10600584/ /pubmed/37878312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.39648 Text en Copyright 2023 Barnert ES et al. JAMA Network Open. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY License.
spellingShingle Original Investigation
Barnert, Elizabeth S.
Schlichte, Lindsay M.
Tolliver, Destiny G.
La Charite, Jaime
Biely, Christopher
Dudovitz, Rebecca
Leifheit, Kathryn
Russ, Shirley
Sastry, Narayan
Yama, Cecile
Slavich, George M.
Schickedanz, Adam
Parents’ Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Offspring Involvement With the Criminal Legal System
title Parents’ Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Offspring Involvement With the Criminal Legal System
title_full Parents’ Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Offspring Involvement With the Criminal Legal System
title_fullStr Parents’ Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Offspring Involvement With the Criminal Legal System
title_full_unstemmed Parents’ Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Offspring Involvement With the Criminal Legal System
title_short Parents’ Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Offspring Involvement With the Criminal Legal System
title_sort parents’ adverse and positive childhood experiences and offspring involvement with the criminal legal system
topic Original Investigation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10600584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37878312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.39648
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