Childhood maltreatment and inept parental disciplinary, attachment, and monitoring practices evidence a relationship with early and severe childhood and adolescent aggression and have figured prominently as causative factors in theoretical and empirical underpinnings of lifelong antisocial behavior. Abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction have been linked to both violent offending and higher scores on measures of dispositional tendencies associated with psychopathy. The current study incorporates these lines of research by examining a potential pathway by which cumulative adverse childhood experience exposure, rather than single exposures assessed independently, leads to chronic and serious juvenile offending. Specifically, we leverage a sample of 64,007 juvenile offenders who have aged out of the juvenile justice system to examine the extent to which the effects of traumatic exposure on age of onset (first arrest) as well as residential placement, total offenses, and serious, violent, and chronic offending up to age 18 are each mediated by psychopathic features. Results demonstrate that a substantial portion (37%–93%) of the effects of cumulative traumatic exposure on justice system outcomes is indirect, operating through these features, even after controlling for demographic and other criminogenic risk factors. Juvenile justice policy implications are discussed.

童年虐待和无能为力的父母纪律，依恋和监控做法证明了与早期和严重的儿童和青少年侵略之间的关系，并且已被广泛地视为终身反社会行为的理论和经验基础的原因。虐待，忽视和家庭功能障碍与暴力犯罪和与心理疾病相关的倾向倾向的测验得分较高有关。当前的研究通过检查潜在的途径来纳入这些研究领域，累积潜在的不良儿童经历经历而不是单独评估的单一暴露会导致慢性和严重的青少年犯罪。具体来说，我们利用了64个样本，007名已从少年司法系统中退休的未成年人，研究了外伤暴露对发病年龄（首次逮捕）以及居住地，完全犯罪以及严重，暴力和长期犯罪的影响程度，直至最高18岁分别是由精神病患者介导的。结果表明，即使在控制了人口统计学和其他犯罪风险因素之后，累积的创伤暴露对司法系统结果的影响中，很大一部分（37％–93％）是间接的，通过这些特征起作用。讨论了少年司法政策的影响。结果表明，即使在控制了人口统计学和其他犯罪风险因素之后，累积的创伤暴露对司法系统结果的影响中，很大一部分（37％–93％）是间接的，通过这些特征起作用。讨论了少年司法政策的影响。结果表明，即使在控制了人口统计学和其他犯罪风险因素之后，累积的创伤暴露对司法系统结果的影响中，很大一部分（37％–93％）是间接的，通过这些特征起作用。讨论了少年司法政策的影响。