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I can find all kinds of research related to ACEs and incarceration except the most obvious: that high ACEs scores makes people more likely to end up incarcerated. I'm looking for something that says, in effect, that people with ACEs score of 4 or higher are X times more likely to experience incarceration. Does anyone know of research like this?

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Hi, Cynthia, 

I'm interested in the same question. Here's one article:

“Adverse childhood events: incarceration of household members and health-related quality of life in adulthood,’ J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2014 Aug; 25(3): 1169-82.

Annie GjelsvikDora M DumontAmy NunnDavid L Rosen

PMID: 25130232

PMCID: PMC4897769

DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2014.0112

 

I will post citations for others as I find them.

Lorraine S

 

 

I looked for similar articles last year and found very little.  However, we are working with a group of women in a local criminal justice system in the Pittsburgh area and have begun to collect ACES data.  We are generally seeing an average of scores even higher than 4!

I looked for similar articles last year and found very little.  However, we are working with a group of women in a local criminal justice system in the Pittsburgh area and have begun to collect ACES data.  We are generally seeing an average of scores even higher than 4!"

When I work with incarcerated women I usually find that the score is around 7, and 5-6 with the men. Which is part of the reason I'm finding it frustrating not to find the research evidence to back this up so that I can use data and not just anecdotal evidence.

 

I am Co-Director of the Neurofeedback Advocacy Project. We implement neurofeedback in 3 agencies in Oregon, one of which Sponsors Inc provides transitional housing and other support to felons just released from prison. The other two sites were the forensics unit of the county Behavioral Health Department and a community mental health center serving a economically hard pressed small town. We collected ACE scores on all participants. The scores were nearly identical at 5.9. In addition to ACE's scores, we collect scores of the number of DSM current Psychosocial Stresses and the number of concurrent symptom clusters (e.g. Anxiety, sleep, depression). Again, the scores on these measures for our sample of felons, male and female matches those from the other sites.

Not directly related to your question but the results to date show significant improvements on client-select, client-rated behavioral health concerns from the treatment. We have added four more sites to the original study and are enrolling several more. We are definitely looking into recruiting sites in prison settings and in the juvenile justice system. If you could point us to such agency sites, it would be a great help.

Here are a few references I found:

https://www.apa.org/science/ab...04/adverse-childhood

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Criminality:
How Long Must We Live before We Possess Our Own Lives?

James a Reavis, PsyD; Jan looman, PhD; Kristina a franco; Briana Rojas

Perm J 2013 Spring;17(2):44-48

Good luck, John

Here is the citation for the report of another relevant study:

"Sociodemographic Characteristics, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders Among Adolescent- Limited, Adult-Onset, Life-Course- Persistent Offenders and Nonoffenders in a General Population Survey"

Authors: Bradley T. Kerridge , S. Patricia Chou, Boji Huang,, and Thomas C. Harford

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