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

    Author(s)
    Narvey, C
    Yang, J
    Wolff, KT
    Baglivio, M
    Piquero, AR
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Piquero, Alex R.
    Year published
    2020
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    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 ...
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    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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    Journal Title
    Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1541204020939647
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
    Subject
    Criminology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/396466
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