Exposure to Violence, Trauma, and Juvenile Court Involvement: A Longitudinal Analysis of Mobile Youth and Poverty Study Data, Mobile, Alabama, 1998-2011

This project consists of secondary analysis material (syntax only, no data). The original study that the material pertains to is an examination of predominantly African American adolescents who live in extreme poverty. The study suggested that exposure to violence is positively related to involvement in the juvenile court system, and partially mediated by psychological factors, particularly hopelessness; thus, practitioners should take care to target more than just traumatic stress as a result of exposure to violence in African American impoverished youth.

本项目仅包含二次分析所用素材（仅含分析语法脚本，无原始数据）。本素材对应的原始研究，以生活在极端贫困中的非裔美国青少年为主要研究对象。该研究表明，暴力暴露与青少年司法系统介入程度呈正相关，且该关联可通过心理因素（尤以绝望感为代表）得到部分中介；因此，针对贫困非裔美国青少年群体，相关从业者不应仅将暴力暴露引发的创伤性应激作为干预靶点，还需兼顾更多相关因素。