Adverse Experiences and the Victim Offender Overlap in a Carceral Setting

• In Event: Victimization of Youth and Justice-Involved Persons

Abstract

Empirical studies indicate that adverse childhood experiences facilitate various types of adult victimization in general or community samples. Yet adverse experiences are not limited to childhood. One purpose of this study is to assess weather recent adverse experiences are related to carceral victimization. Because victimization and offending sometimes share correlates, another purpose of this study is to examine whether recent adverse experience are similarly associated with carceral offending, or the victim-offending overlap. Results pose implications for carceral practice and procedure, particularly with regard to victim-offender overlap.

Author

• Carrie Cook, Georgia College