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15 Youth Violence & Juv. Just. 3 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/yvja15 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Youth Violence and juvenile justice 2017, Vol. 15(1) 3-20 @ The Author(s) 2016 Do Social Bonds Buffer the Rpit n emsin Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Im pact of Adverse Childhood DOI: 10. 1177/1541204016630033 yvi.sagepub.corn Experiences on Reoffending? OSAGE Jessica M. Craig', Michael T. Baglivio2, Kevin T. Wolff3, Alex R. Piquero4, and Nathan Eppss Abstract Research from multiple disciplines has reported that exposure to childhood traumatic events, often referred to as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), increases an individual's chances of experi- encing a wide variety of negative consequences such as chronic disease, unemployment, and involvement in serious, violent, and chronic offending. The current study assesses how protective factors from social bonds may moderate the relationship between ACEs and future offending in a sample of high-risk adjudicated youth. While results showed that increased ACE exposure led to a higher likelihood of rearrest and more social bonds lowered the likelihood of rearrest, in contrast to expectations, the analyses revealed that stronger social bonds did not reduce the deleterious effects of exposure to more types of ACEs on recidivism. A discussion of these findings is offered, along with study limitations and future directions. Keywords social bonds, childhood trauma, recidivism, adverse childhood experiences Introduction It has been well established that childhood victimization and trauma have an array of adverse consequences in different life domains (cf. Felitti et al., 1998; Widom, 1989). Not surprisingly, there has been an increased focus on the effect that these childhood traumatic events, often referred to as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), have on other outcomes later in life (Baglivio et al., 2014; Baglivio, Wolff, Epps, & Nelson, 2015; Fox, Perez, Cass, Baglivio, & Epps, 2015; Hillis et al., 2004). Recent studies have found that individuals who experience more types of ACEs are also more University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA 2 G4S Youth Services, LLC, Tampa, FL, USA 3John Jay College of Criminal justice, New York, NY, USA 4 University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA s Florida Department of juvenile justice, Tallahassee, FL, USA Corresponding Author: Jessica M. Craig, Department of Criminal justice, University of North Texas, 410 S. Avenue C, Chilton Hall, 273L Denton, TX 76203, USA. Email: jessica.craig@unt.edu

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