The Interrelationship Between Empathy and Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Impact on Juvenile Recidivism

IF 1.5 1区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1177/1541204020939647

Chelsey S. Narvey, Jennifer Yang, Kevin T. Wolff, Michael T. Baglivio, A. Piquero

引用次数: 31

Abstract

Low empathy has been implicated in antisocial, aggressive, and criminal behavior, especially among adolescents. Less understood is the extent to which empathy is amenable to treatment, and whether an improvement in empathy can mitigate the deleterious effects of known risk factors, such as childhood maltreatment. A sample of 11,000 serious juvenile offenders in long-term residential placement is leveraged to examine whether over cumulative traumatic exposure, measured by the adverse childhood experience (ACE) score, is associated with the initial level of empathy at admission to a residential program, and whether changes in empathy during treatment moderate the impact of ACEs on juvenile recidivism. Results show youth with higher ACE scores have less empathy at admission and both ACEs and empathy predict recidivism. Most importantly, large gains in empathy are able to dampen the effect of ACEs on recidivism.

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共情与童年不良经历的相互关系及其对青少年再犯的影响

低同理心与反社会、攻击性和犯罪行为有关，尤其是在青少年中。人们不太了解的是，共情在多大程度上可以接受治疗，以及共情的改善是否可以减轻已知风险因素的有害影响，比如童年虐待。本研究以11000名长期居住的严重少年犯为样本，以不良童年经历(ACE)评分来衡量过度累积的创伤暴露是否与入院时的初始共情水平有关，以及治疗期间共情的变化是否会缓和ACE对青少年再犯的影响。结果表明，ACE得分较高的青少年在入院时的共情能力较差，ACE和共情能力都能预测再犯。最重要的是，移情能力的大幅提高能够抑制ace对再犯的影响。

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Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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6.90

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10.50%

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期刊介绍： Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice: An Interdisciplinary Journal provides academics and practitioners in juvenile justice and related fields with a resource for publishing current empirical research on programs, policies, and practices in the areas of youth violence and juvenile justice. Emphasis is placed on such topics as serious and violent juvenile offenders, juvenile offender recidivism, institutional violence, and other relevant topics to youth violence and juvenile justice such as risk assessment, psychopathy, self-control, and gang membership, among others. Decided emphasis is placed on empirical research with specific implications relevant to juvenile justice process, policy, and administration. Interdisciplinary in scope, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice serves a diverse audience of academics and practitioners in the fields of criminal justice, education, psychology, social work, behavior analysis, sociology, law, counseling, public health, and all others with an interest in youth violence and juvenile justice.