From Impact/Justice:
In a significant addition to the growing body of research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), new research by Impact Justice documents extraordinarily high rates of ACEs among formerly incarcerated men and explores early life trauma and its repercussions for violence later in life.
Over a period of 12 months, researchers surveyed and interviewed men who had been convicted of a violent offense serious enough to result in a lengthy prison sentence, mining their early life experiences to better understand trauma among men and how trauma can fuel cycles of violence. Key findings from the study are captured in The Things They Carry, an immersive scrolling story, rich with personal reflections, that Impact Justice released today.
ACEs are highly correlated with structural racism and poverty, social forces that also have an outsized influence on who ends up in prison, yet the prevalence and density of ACEs among this sample of formerly incarcerated men is shocking. Fully half (50%) of the men surveyed reported at least nine of the 16 ACEs identified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and some of them as many as all 16 ACEs. This means that as boys they experienced potentially traumatic events and circumstances across multiple environments, essentially robbing them of any safe place to grow up. By comparison, just 16% of adults in the population at large report four or more ACEs, according to the CDC. Continue reading >>>
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