By University of California, San Francisco Department of Pediatrics, November 10, 2022
Children who have accumulated three or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in early childhood are twice as likely to be stopped by police by age 14 than those without an ACE, says a new study published in Pediatrics.
The paper shows a general trend that the greater number of ACEs a child is exposed to, the more likely the child is to have police contact and to be warned or arrested by the police rather than simply stopped and questioned.
Jason Nagata, MD, Assistant Professor of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at UCSF and co-author of the study, says that few studies have examined the link between ACEs and juvenile justice contact in adolescence, particularly police contact.
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